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On the Hunt for America’s Forgotten Apples
Apples no one has ever tasted are still out in the wild. Dave Benscoter, a retired FBI agent, has spent a decade searching for these 100-year-old heirlooms.
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Andrew Zaleski
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Outside
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May 18, 2023
The Pocahontas Exception: America’s Ancestor Obsession
The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.
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Thomas W. Laqueur
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London Review of Books
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March 30, 2023
Vince McMahon Controls Wrestling History in Order to Control All of Wrestling
How the WWE chairman warped pro wrestling all the way to WrestleMania 39.
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Abraham Josephine Riesman
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Polygon
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March 27, 2023
partner
The Nixon Library's Vietnam Exhibition Obscures the Truth About the War's End
The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.
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Brian Robertson
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HNN
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March 19, 2023
The Right Side of History
How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?
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Emma Green
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The New Yorker
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March 7, 2023
Visualizing Women in Science
A new interactive digital project recovers biographies of women in science, and recreates the social networks that were essential to sustaining their work.
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American Philosophical Society
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March 3, 2023
When History Becomes Precedent in the OLC
Official decisions about military intervention and executive power are often based on outdated historical interpretations.
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Mary L. Dudziak
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Balkinization
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January 16, 2023
A Weekend in Dallas
Revisiting political assassinations.
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Noah Kulwin
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noahkulwin.substack
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November 22, 2022
"What Are They Hiding?"
Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.
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Marc Caputo
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NBC News
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October 19, 2022
Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?
He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Then he disappeared.
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Dan Kois
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Slate
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October 10, 2022
America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming
Our food system could have been so different.
by
Sarah Laskow
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The Atlantic
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October 1, 2022
How "Nature" Contributed To Science’s Discriminatory Legacy
We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.
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Nature
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September 28, 2022
Stop Weaponizing History
Right and left are united in a vulgar form of historicism.
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Arjun Appadurai
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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September 27, 2022
Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention
His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image.
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Rebecca Onion
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The New Republic
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August 19, 2022
The Building Blocks of History
A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.
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Walker Mimms
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Richard Cohen
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The Nation
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August 17, 2022
How Researchers Preserved the Oral Histories of Formerly Enslaved Virginians
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project interviewed 300 formerly enslaved Virginians to share their oral histories.
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David A. Taylor
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Washington Post Magazine
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July 19, 2022
What People Get Wrong About the History of Bisexuality
Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it .
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Julia Shaw
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Made By History
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June 23, 2022
What Extreme Flooding in Yellowstone Means for the National Park's Gateway Towns
These communities rely almost entirely on tourism for their existence—yet too much tourism, not to mention climate change, can destroy them.
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Megan Kate Nelson
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Smithsonian
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June 16, 2022
Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts
Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.
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Ashley D. Farmer
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Tanisha C. Ford
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Black Perspectives
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May 31, 2022
A Timeline of African American Music: 1600 to the Present
An interactive visualization of the remarkable diversity of African American music, with essays on the characteristics of each genre and style.
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Portia K. Maultsby
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Carnegie Hall
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May 25, 2022
The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko
The less known story of Richard Nixon and his genuine love and care for his hometown team, the New York Mets.
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Richard Staff
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Defector
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May 19, 2022
Report of Action Not Received
An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.
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Stephen Berry
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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May 11, 2022
Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots
From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.
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Maya Jasanoff
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The New Yorker
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May 2, 2022
partner
Deep Zoom: 1836 Broadside “Slave Market of America”
Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, this single 77 by 55 centimeter sheet tells multiple stories in both text and illustration.
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William G. Thomas III
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Teresa A. Goddu
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Dorothy Berry
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JSTOR Daily
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April 29, 2022
Land that Could Become Water
Dreams of Central America in the era of the Erie Canal.
by
Jessica Lepler
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Commonplace
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April 5, 2022
How Odetta Revolutionized Folk Music
She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.
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Sasha Frere-Jones
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The New Yorker
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February 24, 2022
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
by
Lydialyle Gibson
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Harvard Magazine
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February 11, 2022
American Revolutionary Geographies Online
Discover the stories, spaces, and people of the American Revolutionary War era through maps, interpretive essays, and interactives.
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Argomaps.org
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February 8, 2022
‘He Never Stopped Ripping Things Up’: Inside Trump’s Relentless Document Destruction Habits
Trump’s shredding of paper in the White House was far more widespread and indiscriminate than previously known.
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Ashley Parker
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Josh Dawsey
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Tom Hamburger
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Jacqueline Alemany
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Washington Post
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February 5, 2022
Sluts and the Founders
Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.
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Alexis Coe
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Study Marry Kill
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January 26, 2022
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