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Why Do American Presidential Transitions Take Such a Ridiculously Long Time?

Horseback travel time is only part of the story.
by Sara Georgini, Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 2, 2020
painting of Henry Adams

What Henry Adams Understood About History’s Breaking Points

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.
by Dan Chiasson via The New Yorker on November 30, 2020
Painting of the rocky mountains

How ‘America the Beautiful’ was Born

The United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country.
by Jill Lepore via National Geographic on November 3, 2020
A picture of Boston being modernized through urban development, construction is happening on several buildings.

How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on October 19, 2020
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Boston Commons

The innovations, and the prejudices, that have shaped the landscape and the community of the "hub of the universe."
Influenza newspaper report

What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time

Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.
by Ethan J. Kytle via Tropics of Meta on September 25, 2020
Women around a table of papers and forms, with a League of Women Voters banner on the wall.

What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 30, 2020
An illustration of Barbara Smith.

Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on July 20, 2020
French military marching in practice for the Bastille Day Parade.
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The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on July 14, 2020
A portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with white hair and a full beard.

A Beautiful Ending

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow.
by Nicholas A. Basbanes via Humanities on June 15, 2020
A man in a blue check suit with news microphones pointed at him gestures to rows of uniformed police officers standing behind him.
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The Long Tie Between Police Unions and Police Violence — and What to do About It

Limits on when police can use force is a better solution than banning police unions.
by Aaron Bekemeyer via Made By History on June 9, 2020

10 Experts on Where the George Floyd Protests Fit Into American History

Many are looking to history for clues about how to understand the evolving moment. Here's what to know.
by Matt Delmont, Kellie Carter Jackson, Olivia B. Waxman, Simon Balto, Duchess Harris, Tyran K. Steward, Greg Carr, Ashley Howard, Jamila Michener, Philip A. Klinkner via TIME on June 4, 2020

How Historic Preservation Shaped the Early United States

A new book details how the young nation regarded its recent and more ancient pasts.
by Karin Wulf, Whitney Martinko via Smithsonian on May 14, 2020
Portrait-style painting of woman in brown dress, with a modern COVID-19 protective mask digitally imposed on her face

Early American Women Unmasked

The masks owned by early American women and even children were no less symbolic than modern masks in terms of practical use, commodification, or controversy.
by Philippe Halbert via The Junto on May 5, 2020

Jubilee Jim Fisk and the Great Civil War Score

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.
by David K. Thomson via Boston Globe Magazine on April 22, 2020

How Generals Fueled 1918 Flu Pandemic to Win Their World War

Just like today, brass and bureaucrats ignored warnings, and sent troops overseas despite the consequences.
by Gareth Porter via The American Conservative on April 4, 2020

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
by Amy Hoffman via Boston Review on April 2, 2020
Barricades marking a baseball field as closed.
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On What Should Have Been Opening Day, America Needs Baseball More Than Ever

When it's safe to return, baseball can play a big role in uniting Americans and providing comfort.
by Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith via Made By History on March 26, 2020
Painting of George Washington, altered to show him holding a stack of cash.

The Founding Generation Showed Their Patriotism With Their Money

History suggests the value of a broader understanding of patriotism, one that goes beyond saluting-the-flag loyalty and battlefield bravery.
by Tom Shachtman via The Atlantic on February 7, 2020
Engraving of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere.

Crispus Attucks Needs No Introduction. Or Does He?

The African American Patriot, who died in the Boston Massacre, was erased from visual history. Black abolitionists revived his memory.
by Matthew Wills, Karsten Fitz via JSTOR Daily on January 20, 2020
High risk, high return investments in whaling ships, such as the New Bedford, Massachusetts, provided a model for modern venture capital. Courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Venture Capital Builds The Modern World

The American method of high-risk, potentially high-reward investments has fueled innovation from New England whaling ventures to Silicon Valley start-ups.
by Tom Nicholas via American Heritage on January 1, 2020
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia
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How the Rise of Urban Nonprofits Has Exacerbated Poverty

While "meds and eds" have powered urban economies, they haven't been the gateway out of poverty that many hoped.
by Claire Dunning via Made By History on September 24, 2019
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How Gentrification Caused America’s Cities to Burn

Yuppies attract cafes and amenities to gentrifying neighborhoods. They also spark rising rents — and even violence.
by Dylan Gottlieb via Made By History on September 13, 2019
Chester Harding

Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)

Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents and Daniel Boone.
by Adam Green via The Public Domain Review on September 10, 2019

From the Battlefield to 'Little Women'

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.
by Jennifer Wilson via New York Review of Books on August 28, 2019
Portrait of George Washington with lips pursed.

George Washington's Biggest Battle? With his Dentures, Made From Hippo Ivory and Maybe Slaves' Teeth

The British were a pain, to be sure, but what really caused him trouble were his teeth.
by William Maloney via The Conversation on July 2, 2019
Portrait photograph of Harriet Jacobs as an older woman

Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs

A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
by Elizabeth Della Zazzera via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 15, 2019
Finely decorated women's restroom lounge

The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge

Separate areas with sofas, vanities, and even writing tables used to put the “rest” in women’s restrooms. Why were these spaces built, and why did they vanish?
by Elizabeth Yuko via CityLab on December 3, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

“A More Beautiful and Terrible History” Corrects the Fables Told of the Civil Rights Movement

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeneé Darden via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 16, 2018

Why We Say "OK"

How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became one of the most widely spoken words in the world.
by Coleman Lowndes via Vox on September 12, 2018
Cover of "First Martyr of Liberty," featuring a painting of Crispus Attucks facing a British soldier with a bayonet.

Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.
by Mitch Kachun, Stephen G. Hall via Black Perspectives on May 30, 2018
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