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President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from Covid-19

Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.
by Peter A. Shulman via Made By History on March 22, 2020

‘A Once-in-a-Century Pathogen’: The 1918 Pandemic & This One

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.
by Mark Honigsbaum via New York Review of Books on March 17, 2020

‘1917’ and the Trouble With War Movies

"Every film about war ends up being pro-war," Francois Truffaut once said.
by Adam Nayman via The Ringer on January 29, 2020

When Santa Claus Was Deplored in Wartime

The modern image of Santa Claus first appeared in a Civil War illustration, and it wasn’t the last time St. Nick was deployed in wartime.
by Christopher Klein via HISTORY on December 4, 2019
A crowd at an Industrial Workers of the World rally in New York in 1914.
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Why the Massacre at Centralia 100 Years Ago is Critically Important Today

Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.
by Steven C. Beda via Made By History on November 9, 2019
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The 1918 Parade That Spread Death in Philadelphia

In six weeks, 12,000 were dead of influenza.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on November 9, 2019

Whose Boots on the Ground

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?
by Kiley Bense via Longreads on November 7, 2019

Time Travel: Daylight Saving Time and the House

When first-term Representative Leon Sacks of Pennsylvania introduced H.R. 6546 on April 21, 1937, the Earth did not stop spinning. But it almost did.
via History, Art, & Archives: United States House of Representatives on November 1, 2019
President Ronald Reagan speaking to Jerry Falwell Sr. Both men are seated with their legs crossed.

Fundamentalism Turns 100, a Landmark for the Christian Right

Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.
by William Trollinger via The Conversation on October 8, 2019

How War Made the Cigarette

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.
by Scott W. Stern via The New Republic on September 25, 2019
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The Submerged History of the Submarine

Submarines played a major role in WW I. But the first submersible was actually used, unsuccessfully, in the Revolutionary War.
by Matthew Wills, Frank Uhlig Jr. via JSTOR Daily on July 22, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

Tying Black Resistance to Communism Is a Time-Tested American Tradition

When modern conservatives associate activists of color with communism, they’re drawing on a racist history that goes back over 100 years.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 19, 2019

Triumph and Disaster: The Tragic Hubris of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If—’

The long and complicated life of Kipling's famous poem.
by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on July 3, 2019
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Rudyard Kipling in America

What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?
by Charles McGrath via The New Yorker on July 1, 2019

‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.
by Andrea Pitzer via New York Review of Books on June 21, 2019
Horses with ribbons and a man counting his gambling winnings.

History’s Greatest Horse Racing Cheat and His Incredible Painting Trick

In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.
by Josh Nathan-Kazis via Narratively on June 6, 2019

New Online: The AP Washington Bureau, 1915-1930

Wire service reporting from the capital provided much of the nation with coverage of federal government and politics.
by Ryan Reft, Neely Tucker via Library of Congress Blog on May 16, 2019
A nurse standing by a patient's bed during the Spanish Flu.

Did We Forget to Memorialize Spanish Flu Because Women Were the Heroes?

Sure, it came on the heels of World War I, but it was way more deadly.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 18, 2019
A woman speaks at a union rally.
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America Once Led the Push For Parental Rights. Now It Lags Behind.

It’s time to adopt paid parental leave as a right.
by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Mona L. Siegel via Made By History on February 8, 2019

Pancho Villa, Prostitutes and Spies: The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall’s Wild Origins

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.
by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on January 10, 2019
Aftermath of Great Molasses Flood in Boston.

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: The Day Boston Was Swamped by a Deadly Wave

100 years ago, an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through Boston's North End.
by Mike Shanahan via Boston Globe on January 9, 2019

A Brief History of the Past 100 Years, as Told Through the New York Times Archives

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.
by Ilia Blinderman, Jan Diehm via The Pudding on December 29, 2018

The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

How Salvation Army’s Red Kettles Became a Christmas Tradition

The 140-year journey from the streets of London's East End to the parking lot of your nearest mall.
by Diane Winston via The Conversation on November 28, 2018

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018
U.S. Base hospital No. 13, Dansville, NY, with porches and awnings over open windows.

Neuro-Psychiatry and Patient Protest in First World War American Hospitals

Though their wishes were often overshadowed, soldier-patients had voices.
by Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on November 7, 2018
Soldiers erecting a barbed wire fence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

That Beautiful Barbed Wire

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 6, 2018
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Syrian in Sioux Falls

In the 1920s, Syrian-Americans were compelled to prove their worth in a society where nativism was on the rise and citizenship often meant being considered white.
by Chris Gratien via Ottoman History Podcast on November 5, 2018

How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.
by Sarah Churchwell, Sean Illing via Vox on October 22, 2018

An Enduring Shame

A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.
by Heather Ann Thompson via New York Review of Books on October 7, 2018
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