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Group of African-American World War I veterans

The Meaning of ‘Sir’ and ‘Ma’am’

“I’d assumed this practice was a manifestation of military decorum.”

by Tracy K. Smith via The Atlantic on November 14, 2023

Gremlins climbing on a World War II warplane.

How Gremlins Went From Fairy Stories to Warplanes to Hollywood Legend

Meet these slippery, mischievous reflections of our anxieties about technology.

by Hadley Meares via Atlas Obscura on October 24, 2023

Eugene V Debs speaking at a rally, c1912-18. Photo courtesy the Library of Congress.

For Socialism and Freedom: The Life of Eugene Debs

How Eugene V. Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom.

by Tom O’Shea via Aeon on October 2, 2023

Pollution above a city

The Importance of Shining a Light on Hidden Toxic Histories

Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?

by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid via The Conversation on September 14, 2023

The Ultimate Road Trip

On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs.

by H. W. Brands via The Washington Free Beacon on August 27, 2023

Kaiser Wilhelm II and his generals during World War I.

The Rise and Fall of the Project State

Rethinking the twentieth century.

by Anton Jäger via American Affairs on August 21, 2023

Illustration of workers designed like they are a part of a technological apparatus.

How Stanford Helped Capitalism Take Over the World

The ruthless logic driving our economy can be traced back to 19th-century Palo Alto.

by Sammy Feldblum via The Chronicle of Higher Education on July 20, 2023

IMPERATOR Steam ship.

The Students Who Went to Sea

"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"

by William H. Whyte via Literary Review on July 7, 2023

When Socialists Put an End to Pasta Inflation

The history of food inflation during World War I, and the riots that halted it, show how capitalists take advantage of consumer expectations to price gouge.

by Brian Callaci via Jacobin on June 11, 2023

Illustration of Freud emerging from Woodrow Wilson's head.

Should We Psychoanalyze Our Presidents?

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on May 28, 2023

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in March 1949.

New Hampshire Removes Historical Marker For Feminist With Communist Past

The state removed the educational marker after Concord Republicans complained about Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's communist ties.

by Andrew Jeong via Retropolis on May 17, 2023

Migrants in line for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, barbed wire in the foreground.

Biden’s Border Policies Target Haitians. That’s No Accident.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

by Leslie M. Alexander via Made By History on May 11, 2023

Two women walking side-by-side.

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

by Herb Harris via Literary Hub on May 3, 2023

President Warren G. Harding throws out the first ball to open the Washington Senators' baseball season on April 13, 1921.

A Century Before Trump’s Term, a President Paid a Mistress to Stay Silent

President Warren G. Harding paid not one, but two women to remain quiet about their affairs with him.

by James D. Robenalt via Retropolis on April 2, 2023

The "Sacred 20" nurses at the Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C., ca. 1908.

Remembering the Sacred 20 at Arlington National Cemetery

The first women to serve in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps helped improve military medicine and expand women’s opportunities to officially serve in the armed forces.

by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on March 23, 2023

Illustration of Mina Miller Edison in front of news clippings about her.

Mina Miller Edison Was Much More Than the Wife of the 'Wizard of Menlo Park'

The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a "home executive."

by Katherine Hobbs via Smithsonian Magazine on March 3, 2023

Stone hands holding up a bronze globe.

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

A new history explores the emergence of international economic institutions that continue to wield immense influence over the domestic politics of many states.

by Kevin P. Gallagher via LSE Review Of Books on February 22, 2023

Black soldiers in battle.

Double V: Military Racism

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on February 22, 2023

Frederick Douglass Patterson, behind the wheel, with an unidentified passenger in a 1910 or 1911 Maxwell automobile in for repairs at the C.R. Patterson & Sons car repair shop, before the Pattersons began making cars themselves.

How America’s First — and Only — Black Automakers Defied the Odds

C.R. Patterson & Sons of Greenfield became the first Black-owned automobile manufacturer in 1915. More than a century later, it remains the only known one.

by Kevin Williams via Retropolis on February 18, 2023

Industrial Workers of the World Labor Day Picnic, Oakland, California, 1939.

Lessons from the Wobblies for Labor Activism Today

Despite their failure to achieve their ultimate goal, the IWW and its resilient members can be examples for the resurgent unions of today.

by Ahmed White via University Of California Press Blog on December 19, 2022

Illustration of U.S. bomber droping brick to form a wall (representing sanctions).

The Folly of Sanctions

Sanctions were conceived as an alternative to war. But they may have made the world more violent.

by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein via The New Republic on December 13, 2022

Fire truck at scene of California wildfire

What If Environmental Damage Is A Form of Capitalist Sabotage?

Worker sabotage is a weapon of the weak, but capitalist sabotage causes much greater damage.

by R. H. Lossin via Made By History on November 22, 2022

Photograph of author Mike Davis.

Mike Davis Revisits His 1986 Labor History Classic, Prisoners of the American Dream

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

by Mike Davis, Daniel Denvir via Jacobin on October 31, 2022

Black and white photograph of suffragists standing in front of a car with a banner reading: we demand an amendment to the United States constitution enfranchising women.

The Jewel City: Suffrage at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Suffragists coalesced in San Francisco to push for nationwide women' suffrage and send a petition to Congress for the vote.

by Tiffany Wayne via AmericanStudies Blog on October 29, 2022

Royal Fusiliers War Memorial, 2011. Photograph by Robert Scarth.

Monuments with Mission Creep

On “all wars” memorials.

by Andrew M. Shanken via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 26, 2022

Black and white image of workmen standing on or outside of a train.

Riding with Du Bois

Railroads—in the Jim Crow South just as in today’s Ukraine—employ physical infrastructure to create racial divisions.

by Manu Karuka via Public Books on October 18, 2022

Illustration of a figure sitting and playing a guitar, in front of an image of a cross

Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution

Describing the experiences of radicals who lived in, traveled to, or found themselves in Mexico between 1910 and 1920.

by Christina Heatherton via Boom California on October 12, 2022

An advertisement for Bayer aspirin and heroin.

Treating the (Last) Pandemic

Heroin, Aspirin, and The Spanish Flu.

by Jessica Cale via Dirty Sexy History on September 26, 2022

Collage image of the book "Public Opinion," featuring a man reading a newspaper.

"Public Opinion" at 100

Walter Lippmann’s seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever.

by André Forget via The Bulwark on September 16, 2022

Map of Phillips Radio by Walter Eckhard (1935).

The Spirit of Radio

Explore some new and old radio maps in our collection, and learn a bit about the history of radio communications.

by Rachel Sharer via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on September 2, 2022

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