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Stevie Ray Vaughan and David Bowie

When Bowie Met Vaughan

The brief creative collision of two superstars.

by Annie Zaleski via Oxford American on December 9, 2025

David Bowie singing into a microphone wearing a feather boa and tights.

How Pop Came Out of the Closet

Jon Savage’s “The Secret Public” traces the influence of queer artists on a hostile culture.

by Samuel Clowes Huneke via The New Republic on February 14, 2025

Bruce Springsteen.

Berlin’s Cold War of Rock

Did music really bring down the Wall?

by Katja Hoyer via Zeitgeist on August 1, 2024

Collage of a shirtless performer and a cutaway image of an egg.

My Generation

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.

by Justin E. H. Smith via Harper’s on June 9, 2023

A supporter of US President Donald Trump holds a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber during a protest after breaching the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. - The demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification.

Jan. 6 Was a "Turning Point" in American History

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

by Annette Gordon-Reed, Chauncey DeVega via Salon on July 12, 2021

Illustration from Percival Lowell's Mars as the Abode of Life, 1908.

Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals

Observing the visible features of Martian landscapes, Giovanni Schiaparelli began seeing things almost immediately.

by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on June 8, 2021

Ronald Reagan and popular musicians from 1980s, black and white collage with colorful shapes

I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction

How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War.

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic on May 8, 2021

Vanilla Ice in front of an American flag

The Rise and Fall of Vanilla Ice, As Told by Vanilla Ice

Thirty years after "Ice Ice Baby," Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony.

by Jeff Weiss via The Ringer on October 6, 2020

Afloat with Static

Jenny Turner reviews "Face It" by Debbie Harry.

by Jenny Turner via London Review of Books on December 14, 2019

'I'm Feeling Bad About America'

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

by J. W. McCormack via The Baffler on November 1, 2018

The Forgotten Story of Pure Hell, America’s First Black Punk Band

The four-piece lived with the New York Dolls and played with Sid Vicious, but they’ve been largely written out of cultural history.

by Cassidy George via Dazed on August 8, 2018

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