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Popular History

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

by Scott Spillman via The Point on September 29, 2024

Movie poster of The Birth of a Nation depicting a Ku Klux Klan member as a knight.

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

On the literary and cinematic legacy of white supremacy in the United States.

by Joel Edward Goza via Literary Hub on September 23, 2024

Vietnamese refugees preparing to evacuate a village during an American air raid.

The End of a Village

Jonathan Schell’s account of the US military’s destruction of the village of Ben Suc in Vietnam laid bare the problem with many American interventions.

by Wallace Shawn via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2024

The title card for Little House of a Prairie on a green hill.

50 Years Ago: America Loved a Little House

The beloved family show left a lasting legacy.

by Troy Brownfield via The Saturday Evening Post on September 11, 2024

Books That Speak of Books

How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written.

by Emma Garman via HNN on September 10, 2024

Audre Lorde

A Book That Puts the Life Back Into Biography

To capture the spirit of the poet Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs decided to break all the rules.

by Danielle Amir Jackson via The Atlantic on September 8, 2024

Foggy hills in Appalachia.

Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

Justin B. Wymer knows a snake when he sees one.

by Justin B. Wymer via Literary Hub on August 27, 2024

Emily Dickinson.

When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In

The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?

by Kamran Javadizadeh via The New Yorker on August 21, 2024

A Nice, Provocative Silence

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

by Francis Spufford, Devin Thomas O’Shea via HNN on August 13, 2024

A man crying amidst the ruins of his house after a bombing.

Moving Towards Life

Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.

by Marina Magloire via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 7, 2024

James Baldwin

The Brilliance in James Baldwin’s Letters

The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, was best known for his novels and essays. But correspondence was where his light shone brightest.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 2, 2024

Herman Melville; illustration by Maya Chessman.

Siding with Ahab

Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?

by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2024

Portrait of a Black woman; artist unknown, American, circa 1830–1835.

In Search of the Real Hannah Crafts

"The Bondwoman’s Narrative" is the first novel by a Black woman to describe slavery from the inside. Recently, scholars have discovered her true identity.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2024

Close-up of E.E. Cummings, looking off to the side.

The Peculiar Legacy of E.E. Cummings

Revisiting his first book, "The Enormous Room," a reader can get a sense of everything appealing and appalling in his work.

by David B. Hobbs via The Nation on July 22, 2024

Doodles, flourishes and scribbles drawn by George Washington.

Doodle Nation: Notes on Distracted Drawing

Humans have doodled for as long as they have written and drawn, but psychoanalysis began to imagine the doodle as a key to understanding the unconscious mind.

by Polly Dickson via The Paris Review on July 17, 2024

Gratz Cohen and the manuscript of one of his poems.

A Savannah Poet

The Civil War cut short many lives, and a new a book that blends the genres of history and memoir sets out the resurrect the memory of one of those lives.

by Jason K. Friedman via University Of South Carolina Press on July 15, 2024

A man tacks applications to Princeton University on a bulletin board

The Rise of the College Application Essay

The essay component of American college applications has a long history, but its purpose has changed over time.

by Sarah Stoller via Made By History on July 11, 2024

Norman Mailer in front of Brooklyn skyline.

The New York Intellectuals’ Battle of the Sexes

Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

by Michael Kimmage via The New Republic on July 5, 2024

Cover of "James" by Percival Everett.

Kierkegaard on the Mississippi

Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic.

by Zain Khalid via Bookforum on July 2, 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1857.

The Essential Emerson

The latest biography of the great transcendentalist captures the paradoxes of his Yankee mind.

by Allen Mendenhall via Law & Liberty on June 21, 2024

Syntactic trees filled with words and numbers.

American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

A pre-history of the sentence diagrams that were once commonplace in the American classroom.

by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on June 19, 2024

Palestinians inspect the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, October 8, 2023.

The Desire to Annihilate Gaza Wasn’t Born on 10/7 — It’s Part of a Long Tradition

A long Euro-American tradition of genocide and ethnic cleansing imagined freeing a barren Palestine from Palestinian barbarity and heathenism.

by Adam Yaghi via Religion Dispatches on June 17, 2024

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert giving two thumbs up.

When the Movies Mattered

Siskel and Ebert and the heyday of popular movie criticism.

by Annie Berke via The Yale Review on June 12, 2024

Norman Mailer.

The Tough Guy Crew

Jewish masculinity and the New York intellectuals.

by Leonard Benardo via New Statesman on June 12, 2024

Joni Mitchell being interviewed in 1972 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Seeing Ourselves in Joni Mitchell

Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a generation of listeners came to identify with the folk singer’s intimate songs.

by David Hajdu via The Nation on June 11, 2024

Misery and Fortune of Women (1930).

The Lost Abortion Plot

Power and choice in the 1930s novel.

by Julia Cooke via The Point on June 11, 2024

Charles Fort.

In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

On the porous, ever-shifting boundaries between science and speculation.

by Ed Simon via Literary Hub on June 10, 2024

Lucretia Howe Newman Coleman

Finding Lucretia Howe Newman Coleman

Once a powerful voice in the Black press, Coleman all but disappeared from the literary landscape of the American Midwest after her death in 1948.

by Ashawnta Jackson, Jennifer Harris, H. A. Tanser via JSTOR Daily on May 27, 2024

A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves by Eastman Johnson.

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

Abolitionist and writer John Swanson Jacobs on reclaiming liberty in a land of unfreedom.

by John Swanson Jacobs, Jonathan D. S. Schroeder via Literary Hub on May 24, 2024

A painting of a lively sermon in a Black church.

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and others embraced a new Black humanism.

by Anthony B. Pinn via Literary Hub on May 24, 2024

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