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An artificial Christmas tree

Augmenting Christmas: Artificial Trees and the Lure of Perpetual Nature

From aluminum to plastic, the evolution of artificial Christmas trees reveal our desires for safer, cleaner, “better” nature and modern convenience.
by Jessica van Horssen via NiCHE on December 11, 2025
Screenshot of a family hug from 'It's a Wonderful Life'

When 'It's a Wonderful Life' Came Under FBI Scrutiny

During the Red Scare, a 1947 FBI report alleged the beloved holiday film contained subtly subversive anti-American propaganda.
by Christopher Klein via HISTORY on December 11, 2025
Peter Matthiessen.

What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

What led Peter Matthiessen from spying to starting a magazine?
by Dan Piepenbring, Lance Richardson via The Paris Review on November 11, 2025
A troop of Japanese American Girl Scouts in an internment camp.
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Complicit in the Business of Indoctrination and Incarceration

By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.
by Amy Erdman Farrell via HNN on November 4, 2025
The Statue of Liberty as clouds roll in.

The End of Asylum

The second Trump administration has undone the division between political and economic migrants. Did it make sense to separate them to begin with?
by Mae Ngai via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2025
Cover of "The Age of Hitler"

Should We Move on From Hitler?

What happens when Hitler’s shadow fades—and what moral vision replaces it?
by Jeroen Bouterse via 3 Quarks Daily on October 9, 2025
A collage featuring Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King Jr., and Africa.

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.
by Lovia Gyarkye via The New Republic on September 25, 2025
A woman showing another woman how to throw a bowling ball.
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The Bowling Alley: It’s a Woman’s World

Even when it was considered socially unacceptable, American women were knocking down pins on the local lanes.
by Betsy Golden Kellem via JSTOR Daily on September 24, 2025
Hank Thompson baseball card

Hank Thompson Lived A Wild, Tragic, Forgotten Life In Baseball

A baseball’s forgotten pioneer was MLB’s third Black player. A war hero and gifted hitter, his troubled life defied the halo.
by Robert Weintraub via Defector on September 17, 2025
Louis Ludlow.

War Powers to the People

Louis Ludlow’s war referendum amendment was the high-water mark of American antiwar populism.
by Hunter DeRensis via The American Conservative on September 1, 2025
Presidents and various military personnel / armory photoshopped over each other

The Long Descent to Unilateralism

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.
by Sarah Burns via Law & Liberty on September 1, 2025
Aftermath of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

An oral history of the coverage: what the United States attempted to cover up.
by Garrett M. Graff via Literary Hub on August 20, 2025
Dates growing on a palm.
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Dates: Civilization’s Sweetest Indulgence

Offshoots from the “Tree of Life” traveled from Mesopotamia to the Levant to the United States, beguiling everyone with their toothsome confections.
by Jacob Jones via JSTOR Daily on August 13, 2025
Mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb going off.

Inside the History of Nuclear Science

Eighty years after the bomb, scientists still grapple with nuclear legacy. Some seek atonement, others insist it’s no longer their burden.
by Erik Baker via New Statesman on August 6, 2025
Japanese-American man in a military uniform.

He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.

How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America.
by Andrew Aoyama via The Atlantic on July 9, 2025
Movie poster for Warfare, 2025.
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War Stories Without the History

Films about the Iraq War prize “truth-telling,” but don’t offer many insights about the war itself.
by Jake Pitre via HNN on July 1, 2025

Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it.
by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on June 26, 2025
Mexican men in line for work in the Bracero program.
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What the World War II-Era Bracero Program Reveals About U.S. Immigration Debates

Efforts to restrict immigration have long coexisted with — and even reinforced — the nation's economic reliance on Mexican laborers.
via Retro Report on May 9, 2025
Alleged enemy aliens on way to detention camp, Gloucester, New Jersey, 1918.
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The Alien Enemies Act: Annotated

Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on April 25, 2025
Fiorello La Guardia.

How Mayor Fiorello La Guardia Transformed New York City

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is questioning what a socialist might accomplish as mayor of NYC. To answer it, it’s worth looking back on Fiorello La Guardia.
by Joshua B. Freeman via Jacobin on April 23, 2025
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What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War

Japanese survivors recall the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and warn of future risks.
via Retro Report on April 10, 2025
Josephine Baker and a soldier.

The Superstar Turned Spy Who Fought the Nazis and for Civil Rights

A new book highlights Josephine Baker’s wartime contribution, and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights.
by Jon Henley via The Guardian on April 6, 2025
Donald Trump at Lancaster Airport on November 3, 2024, in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

This Is America

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.
by Daniel Bessner via Jacobin on March 27, 2025
Black and white Washington DC.

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Dean Acheson, President Truman’s prim, patrician undersecretary of state, was sitting in his office on February 21, 1947, when he received a visitor.
by Clay Risen via Literary Hub on March 21, 2025
A group of U.S. Marines crossing a rice paddy in Vietnam.

‘Commonweal’ and the Vietnam War

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?
by Peter Steinfels via Commonweal on February 22, 2025
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.
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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
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