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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
Collage of FSA and OWI photographs
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Photogrammar

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.
by Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold via American Panorama on February 10, 2021
illustration of boy playing Cold War video game

First-Person Shooter Ideology

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.
by Daniel Bessner via The Drift on February 2, 2021
Father Coughlin gives a radio broadcast.

The Late ’30s Deplatforming of Father Coughlin

Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.
by Thomas Doherty via Slate on January 21, 2021
A screencap from Looney Tunes featuring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Hungry Like the Rabbit

On the HBO Max streaming service, with their skipped numbers, the episodes omitted from the 31 seasons of Looney Tunes are easy to spot.
by James Panero via The Spectator 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
Joe Biden speaking as the president elect.
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What Biden’s Attachment to An American Century Might Mean

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.
by Suzanne Enzerink via Made By History on December 16, 2020
An abstract painting.

Working with Death

The experience of feeling in the archive.
by Ruth Lawlor via Perspectives on History on December 15, 2020
Silhouette of a soldier sitting on aircraft

The Long Roots of Endless War

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on November 30, 2020
Katherine Fite sitting next to Justice Jackson.

“It is History and It Is Fascinating”

Katherine Fite and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, 1945.
by Tammy Williams via U.S. National Archives on November 19, 2020
Photo of an interracial couple

On California’s Eugenicist Past

Jane Dailey considers the power of the law to reinforce racism.
by Jane Dailey via Literary Hub on November 17, 2020
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Quoting Irish Poetry, Joe Biden is Making Hope and History Rhyme

Explaining Joe Biden’s fondness for quoting Irish poets.
by Cóilín Parsons via Made By History on November 1, 2020
Person holding suitcase at gas station with other person in background

Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on October 29, 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
Cover of "The Idealist" by Samuel Zipp, featuring a photo of Wendell Willkie waving to photographers from the doorway of an airplane.

Q&A with Samuel Zipp, author of "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World"

Debates about what should be America’s role in the world are not new—neither is the slogan “America First.”
by Samuel Zipp via Harvard University Press Blog on October 23, 2020

The World Henry Ford Made

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.
by Justin H. Vassallo via Boston Review on October 9, 2020

Thirty Glorious Years

Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?
by Jonathan Hopkin via Aeon on October 2, 2020
Headshot of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Glorious RBG

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.
by Irin Carmon via Intelligencer on September 18, 2020
Refutees carrying their possessions prepare to board a truck

Finding a Home for the Last Refugees of World War II

What happened to the last million Eastern Europeans in refugee camps in Germany, who refused to return home, or who had no home to return to.
by David Nasaw via Literary Hub on September 15, 2020
Two men sitting on a couch and laughing, with an American flag behind them

The Conceit of American Indispensability

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.
by Sam Klug via Boston Review on August 18, 2020
A police officer on a horse in a city street
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The Problem With Asking Police to Enforce Public Health Measures

Policing public health is likely to result in increased racial disparities.
by Emily M. Brooks via Made By History on August 10, 2020

On the Great and Terrible Hurricane of 1938

And the lone forecaster who predicted its deadly path.
by Eric Jay Dolin via Literary Hub on August 6, 2020

Picasso Meets Polio

The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.
by Charlotte Decroes Jacobs via Nautilus on July 29, 2020

When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute?

Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?
by Matt Seaton via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2020

How to Confront a Racist National History

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.
by Susan Neiman, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on July 6, 2020
August 31 1946 Cover of New Yorker magazine

The New Yorker Article Heard Round the World

Revisiting John Hersey's groundbreaking "Hiroshima."
by Greg Mitchell via Literary Hub on July 2, 2020
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Yes, President Trump, Confederate Base Names Celebrate Heritage — a Shameful One

Why removing the names of Confederates from military bases matters.
by Chad Williams via Made By History on July 2, 2020

Bowling For Suburbia

By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the "poor man's country club."
by Kate Reggev via Contingent on May 8, 2020

How DIY Home Repair Became a Hobby for Men

It was only in the 20th century that toolboxes became staples in the homes of middle-class men.
by Steven M. Gelber, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on April 20, 2020
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