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Vice President Harris speaks during a Maternal Health Day of Action event in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7.
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History Shows How to Fix the U.S.'s Abysmal Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates

The maternal health intervention from a century ago that worked.
by Michelle Bezark via Made By History on December 19, 2021
Tracy Ehlert, a substitute teacher, in a classroom
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Today’s Teacher Shortages are Part of a Longer Pattern

Until school boards and administrators listen to teachers, they’ll end up with shortages in every crisis.
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz via Made By History on November 18, 2021
A mostly African American audience listens to a speaker at the 5th Pan-African Conference, 1945

The New Black Internationalism

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.
by Adom Getachew via Dissent on October 9, 2021
Vehicles at Bagram air base in Afghanistan on July 5 after the U.S. military departed.
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U.S. Military’s Longtime Reliance on Contractors Fueled Afghanistan Loss

Relying on private contractors has always created problems for the U.S. military.
by John DeLee via Made By History on October 7, 2021
Scottsboro Boys standing

Ada Wright, The Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front

The Scottsboro Case quickly became one of the most infamous international spectacles that would eventually define the interwar period.
by Ashley Everson via Black Perspectives on July 13, 2021
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A Brief History of the Cheez-It

America's iconic orange cracker turns 100 this year.
by Leo DeLuca via Smithsonian on May 21, 2021
A collage featuring pictures from the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the 1920s, including people wearing masks and nurses on one side and flappers on the other.

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.
by Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on May 3, 2021
Illustration of separated city buildings surrounding a globe embedded in the ground.

Reconstruction Finance

Popular politics and reconstructing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
by Nic Johnson via Phenomenal World on April 28, 2021
Artist's rendering of the proposed Disney's America theme park in Prince William County, Virginia.

Disney and Battlefields: A Tale of Two Continents

The conflict between commercialization and historic preservation.
by Niels Eichhorn via Muster on April 20, 2021
Union workers march past the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis.
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MLK’s Radical Vision Was Rooted in a Long History of Black Unionism

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.
by Peter Cole via Made By History on April 4, 2021
A screencap from a news show reading "Outrage after video taken inside Florida supermarket goes viral" from MSNBC.

Misinformation, Vaccination, and “Medical Liberty” in the Age of COVID-19

Vaccination is of critical importance right now. History shows us that our problems are nothing new.
by Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on March 30, 2021
Armistice Day celebration with a large crowd of people

People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – And Paid a Price

At the first hint the virus was receding, people pushed to get life back to normal. Unfortunately another surge of the disease followed.
by J. Alexander Navarro via The Conversation on March 23, 2021
Student completing standardized test

The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing

From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.
by John Rosales, Tim Walker via National Education Association on March 20, 2021
Bathroom scales

The Completely Bonkers History of the Bathroom Scale

A century ago, few Americans had any idea how much they weighed. Here’s why that changed so dramatically.
by Kelsey Miller via Elemental on February 15, 2021

Why Trump Isn't a Fascist

The storming of the Capitol on 6 January was not a coup. But American democracy is still in danger.
by Richard J. Evans via New Statesman on January 13, 2021
A collage of Joe Biden photos.

5 Things You Didn’t Know about Joe Biden’s Roots

A genealogist takes a closer look at Joe Biden's family history.
by Megan Smolenyak via Medium on January 12, 2021
Black and white photo of a family sitting around the television together

A Brief History of Consumer Culture

Over the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.
by Kerryn Higgs via The MIT Press Reader on January 11, 2021
William Faulkner

‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on December 20, 2020
Newspaper scraps from the Flu Pandemic of 1918.

We're Celebrating Thanksgiving Amid a Pandemic. Here's How We Did it in 1918 and What Happened Next.

Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.
by Grace Hauck via USA Today on November 24, 2020
Boys holding a sign and working

What the Greatest Generation Had That the Covid Generation Lacks

Americans are no more selfish in 2020 than they were in the 1940s, the difference between the two moments is about national leadership, not national character.
by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on November 18, 2020
American Imperialism

Warfare State

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on October 28, 2020
Freeville Republic

When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement

When public opinion favored sheltering youth from adult society, the Freeville Republic immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.
by Jennifer S. Light via The MIT Press Reader on October 9, 2020
Two adults holding hands with a child in front of a Christmas tree

The Oracle of Our Unease

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2020
A movie still featuring a close-up of two actors from The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence: How a US Classic Defined Its Era

Cameron Laux looks at how The Age of Innocence – published 100 years ago – marked a pivotal moment in US history.
by Cameron Laux via BBC News on September 23, 2020

Flu Fallout

A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.
via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 22, 2020
Republican Warren G. Harding speaking to voters from his front porch in Ohio.

How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020

How U.S. History Is Taught Has Always Been Political

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 17, 2020
Eugene Debs in a suit

Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.
by Shawn Gude via Jacobin on September 2, 2020
People wearing masks; one has a sign that reads "Wear a mask or go to jail."

The Last Pandemic

Using history to guide us in the difficult present.
by E. Thomas Ewing via Humanities on August 16, 2020
Harry Sternberg’s 1947 visualization of fascism as a three-headed monster.

What We Don’t Understand About Fascism

Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history—and won't help us address our current political crisis.
by Victoria de Grazia via Zócalo Public Square on August 13, 2020
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