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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.

Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark the End of the Postwar Order

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.

by Dirk Moses via Jacobin on February 16, 2025

A “mosser” with a load of seaweed bound for the agar factory in Beaufort, N.C.

When Fishermen Harvested Seaweed: The Agar Industry in Beaufort, N.C. during the Second World War

How a small factory off the coast of North Carolina played a role in the war.

by David Cecelski via davidcecelski.com on February 12, 2025

A view of an Inuit town in Greenland surrounded by snowy hills.

Greenland: Polar Politics

Though it may seem like a new topic of concern, the glaciated landscape of Greenland has floated in and out of American politics for decades.

by Rob Crossan via JSTOR Daily on February 10, 2025

A flour sack with a girl feeding ducks with "Nassogne, 1915" and "Merci, L'Amerique" or "Thank you, America" embroidered on it.

The Beginnings of USAID Can Be Traced to a Famine in Belgium

Trump is freezing the United States’ foreign aid agency, which grew from our relief efforts over the world’s wars and crises.

by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on February 4, 2025

Three identical pictures of the explosion of an atomic bomb with different coloring.

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

On Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of early science-fiction.

by Dorian Lynskey via Literary Hub on January 28, 2025

Von Trapp family from "The Sound of Music," (1965).

How the Family From Everyone’s Favorite Musical Actually Came to America

And why so many people remember the tale so differently.

by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Slate on January 26, 2025

A drawing of a Viking ship approaching Greenland.

The Long Struggle for Greenland

Throughout its history, the vast Arctic island has been viewed by competing powers as a strategic prize and geopolitical asset.

by Paul Lay via Engelsberg Ideas on January 8, 2025

Sound waves.

Listening Devices

The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?

by Ann Neumann via The Baffler on January 6, 2025

Kimonos hanging on a clothes line at an internment camp.

The Secret History

An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans.

by Harmony Holiday via Bookforum on December 10, 2024

A USPS postal worker pulling a cart of mail through a snow storm.

How Mailmen Saved Rural America

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

by Jeff Bloodworth via UnHerd on November 25, 2024

World War 2 era military helmet under text reading "He's sure to get 'V' mail."

V-Mail: A Photo-Based Technological Triumph in Wartime Communication

During World War II, the revolutionary V-Mail leveraged cutting-edge microfilm technology to streamline correspondence.

by Matthew Williams via PetaPixel on November 22, 2024

Today’s Echoes of the First ‘America First’

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

by Casey Michel via The Bulwark on November 13, 2024

You Had to Be There

Whose side is the war correspondent on?

by Zoë Hu via The Baffler on November 5, 2024

Two newspaper workers flip a first proof of a page off the printing press at the offices of the Daily Mail, 1944.

Perhaps the Most Influential Single Propagandist for Fascism

On the lengths newspaper publishers took to reach new subscribers — and then drive them away — in the 1930s.

by Terry Kirby via HNN on November 4, 2024

A drawing of a skeletal hand erupting from the ground and separating a house with a Harris/Walz sign and a house with a Trump/Vance sign. Face masks float in the wind.

There’s a Very Specific Issue Haunting This Election. No One Is Talking About It.

You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.

by Grady Hendrix via Slate on October 31, 2024

Aftermath of the explosions at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine.

How Congress Is Written Out of History

Congress's role in shaping policies like the Affordable Care Act and exonerating Port Chicago sailors is often overlooked, overshadowed by the president.

by John A. Lawrence via Perspectives on History on October 31, 2024

A stuffed bear in a room of empty children's beds at Willowbrook Hospital.

The Horrors of Hepatitis Research

The abusive experiments on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School were only one part of a much larger unethical research program.

by Carl Elliott via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2024

Battleship NEW YORK at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard dry dock, Bremerton, Washington, 1914

Postcolonial Pacific: The Story of Philippine Seattle

The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.

by H. M. A. Leow, Dorothy Fujita-Rony via JSTOR Daily on September 29, 2024

A ragpicker collects recyclable materials at a landfill.

Why Recycling Is Mostly Garbage

In two new books, the rise of recycling is a story of illusory promises, often entwined with disturbing political agendas.

by Daniela Blei via The New Republic on September 27, 2024

Aerial view of the suburbs.

How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

The systematic post-war displacement of communities of color.

by Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis via Literary Hub on September 25, 2024

Black American soldiers pose with German women and mixed race children.

A Black Woman’s Activism in Postwar (West) Germany

Why one journalist worked with Black American families to adopt mixed-race German children after World War II.

by Silke Hackenesch via Black Perspectives on September 18, 2024

The original cover sketch of "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go," by Richard Scarry, with cartoon animals in vehicles.

On Richard Scarry and the Art of Children's Literature

Scarry’s guides to life both reflected and bolstered kids’ lived experience, and in some cases even provided the template for it.

by Chris Ware via The Yale Review on September 9, 2024

A man lifts a woman out of a boat and onto the pier. Photo from London, 1925.

The Complex History of American Dating

While going out on a date may seem like a natural thing to do these days, it wasn't always the case.

by Ashawnta Jackson, Beth Bailey via JSTOR Daily on August 8, 2024

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. in a flight suit with an airplane.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Was a Family Star Until Tragedy Struck in 1944

Eighty years ago this month, the Kennedy who might have been president was killed on a secret mission over England.

by Michael E. Ruane via Retropolis on August 1, 2024

1920s advertisement for a home refridgerator.

Homing Devices: Women’s Home Planning Scrapbooks, 1920s—1950s

Women on the homefront planned future homes with scrapbooks, blending wartime duty with dreams of postwar prosperity and modern comforts.

by Andrew M. Shanken via Platform on July 22, 2024

Judge Learned Hand.

Learned Hand’s Spirit of Liberty

Eighty years ago, Americans embraced a new definition of their faith: “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”

by Lincoln Caplan via The New Yorker on July 4, 2024

Noam Chomsky.

How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism

On the profound impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

by Robert F. Barsky via The MIT Press Reader on July 3, 2024

A man in uniform holding an honorable discharge certificate from the U.S. Air Force.

How The U.S. Military Built San Francisco's LBGTQ+ Legacy

Many LGBTQ+ veterans settled in the city as it was a common point of disembarkation and a place of gender nonconformity.

by Solcyré Burga via TIME on June 21, 2024

The American summer camp tradition arguably began in 1861 with Connecticut educator Frederick Gunn's "Gunnery Camp," where children fished, foraged, and practiced military drills.

The Anxious History of the American Summer Camp

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

by Ashley Stimpson via Atlas Obscura on June 20, 2024

The presidents featured on Mt. Rushmore holding ice cream cones.

How Ice Cream Made America

Over the centuries, the beloved treat has become an integral part of our national identity.

by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie via The Saturday Evening Post on June 19, 2024

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