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The 'Pedestrian' Who Became One of America's First Black Sports Stars

In 1880, Frank Hart wowed audiences at New York’s Madison Square Garden by walking 565 miles in six days.
by David Seideman via Atlas Obscura on April 17, 2018
Parents with four daughters.

Parenting for the “Rough Places” in Antebellum America

Jane Sedgwick’s evolving ideas about her children’s natures and her ability to shape them reflected an emerging American skepticism of the perfectibility.
by Erin Bartram via Commonplace on March 1, 2018
Portrait of Charles Dickens from his 1842 trip to America.

Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners

How Charles Dickens' unpleasant trip to Boston led to "A Christmas Carol."
by Samantha Silva via Literary Hub on December 21, 2017
People holding up signs of support for abortion rights for immigrant women
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Why the Courts Had to Force the Trump Administration to Let a 17-Year-Old Have an Abortion

A 1974 case gave the antiabortion movement a new playbook to whittle away abortion rights for poor women.
by Gillian Frank, Lauren Gutterman via Made By History on October 26, 2017
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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."

How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States.
by John M. Barry via Smithsonian on October 25, 2017
A stone marker for a post road, slightly chipped, reading "Boston 8 miles 1734 A.I."

"To Undertake a News-Paper in This Town"

How printers in the 1770s assembled the news for their papers, how they used the postal system, and how they may have approached Twitter.
by Emily Sneff via Declaration Resources Project on September 20, 2017
Amos Lawrence.

The Bostonian Who Armed the Anti-Slavery Settlers in "Bleeding Kansas"

How Amos Adams Lawrence became an abolitionist.
by Robert K. Sutton via Zócalo Public Square on August 8, 2017
Demonstrator with sign that reads "Journalism is not a crime"
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When the War on the Press Turns Violent, Democracy Itself is at Risk

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.
by Joshua D. Rothman via Made By History on August 1, 2017

No 'King of Kings'

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.
by Sara Georgini via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 3, 2017

What the Fugitive Slave Act Teaches Us About How States Can Resist Oppressive Federal Power

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 8, 2017

The Truth About Abolition

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.
by Adam Rothman via The Atlantic on April 1, 2016
Cover of "Why Busing Failed," depicting anti-busing protestors surrounding a school bus.

Why Busing Failed

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.
by Matt Delmont via Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation on March 6, 2016

How Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Won the 1964 New Hampshire Primary Without Lifting a Finger

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.
by Seth Gannon via Slate on February 8, 2016

By Which Melancholy Occurrence: The Disaster Prints of Nathaniel Currier, 1835–1840

Why Americans living in uncertain times bought so many sensational images of shipwrecks and fires.
by Genoa Shepley via Panorama on October 14, 2015

The Self-Made Man

The story of America’s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth.
by John Swansburg via Slate on September 29, 2014
Ice cubes.
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The Ice King

The story of the man who introduced ice cubes into our beverages.
via BackStory on August 17, 2012
Paul Philippoteaux's cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg depicting the Union and Confederate armies fighting.

The Great Illusion of Gettysburg

How a re-creation of its most famous battle helped erase the meaning of the Civil War.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on February 6, 2012

How The 'Pox' Epidemic Changed Vaccination Rules

During the 1898-1904 pox epidemic, public health officials and policemen forced thousands of Americans to be vaccinated against their will.
by Fresh Air via NPR on April 5, 2011

How 'OK' Took Over the World

It crops up in our speech dozens of times every day, although it apparently means little. So how did "OK" conquer the world?
by Allan Metcalf via BBC News on February 18, 2011
Marine hospital

Sailors’ Health and National Wealth

That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.
by Gautham Rao via Commonplace on October 1, 2008
Milton Bradley surrounded by colorful design

The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 14, 2007

Abortion in American History

How do ideological debates on gender roles influence the abortion debate?
by Katha Pollitt via The Atlantic on May 1, 1997

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