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Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design
Allison Rudnick on the rise and fall of the 19th century "Literary Poster."
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Allison Rudnick
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Literary Hub
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April 3, 2024
"A Fiendish Fascination"
The representation of Jews in antebellum popular culture reveals that many Americans found them both cartoonishly villainous and enticingly exotic.
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David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
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February 1, 2024
The Great Leg Show!
Hot pants served as a sartorial riposte to the fashion industry’s relentless campaign for the midi.
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Oline Eaton
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Contingent
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January 30, 2024
We Got the Beat
How The Go-Go’s emerged from the LA punk scene in the late ’70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album.
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Lisa Whittington-Hill
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Longreads
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January 16, 2024
Americanism, Exoticism, and the “Chop Suey” Circuit
Asian American artists who performed for primarily white audiences in the 1930s and ’40s both challenged and solidified racial boundaries in the United States.
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Ashawnta Jackson
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SanSan Kwan
via
JSTOR Daily
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January 12, 2024
Thunder in Her Head
A look into the life, art, and "wildness" of influential choreographer Martha Graham.
by
Jerome Charyn
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The American Scholar
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December 4, 2023
A Short History of Hairdryers
The beauty parlor became a place of sociability for women in the twentieth century, partly aided by modern technology of hair drying.
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Katrina Gulliver
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Jennifer Scanlon
via
JSTOR Daily
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September 25, 2023
The Cult Roots of Health Food in America
How the Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
by
Diana Hubbell
via
Atlas Obscura
on
April 19, 2023
Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking
How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.
by
Ava Purkiss
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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April 17, 2023
Posed Riddles
Seeing through empathy with Diane Arbus.
by
Max Norman
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The Drift
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February 28, 2023
The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. Butler
The story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.
by
E. Alex Jung
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Vulture
on
November 21, 2022
How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol
Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible
by
Maria Teresa Hart
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Smithsonian
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November 1, 2022
Sass And Shimmer: The Dazzling History Of Black Majorettes And Dance Lines
Beginning in the 1960s, young Black majorettes and dance troupes created a fascinating culture. This is the story of how they did it.
by
Alecia Taylor
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Brooklyn White
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Essence
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October 10, 2022
Who Was the Real Marilyn Monroe?
"Blonde," a heavily fictionalized film by Andrew Dominik, explores the star's life and legend in a narrative that's equal parts glamorous and disturbing.
by
Grant Wong
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Smithsonian
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September 26, 2022
Gay Panic on Muscle Beach
The skin and strength on display at Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach aggravated American fears of gender transgressions and homosexuality.
by
Livia Gershon
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Elsa Devienne
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JSTOR Daily
on
August 26, 2022
Sex, Scandal, and Sisterhood: Fifty Years of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
They’re global icons who have left a lasting imprint on American culture. But do recent controversies threaten the squad’s future?
by
Sarah Hepola
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Texas Monthly
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August 15, 2022
Mammy and the Femme Fatale: Hattie McDaniel, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Black Female Standard
Black femininity was always considered a hard sell in Hollywood, but Hattie McDaniels and Dorothy became the perfect women to peddle racist stereotypes.
by
Lynda Cowell
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Girls On Tops
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July 20, 2022
Buff Boys of America: Eugen Sandow and Jesus
Under the influence of Muscular Christianity, Jesus transformed into a muscle-bound Aryan, saving souls through strength and masculinity.
by
Matthew Wills
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Rachel McBride Lindsey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
July 6, 2022
Transgender Legal Battles: A Timeline
New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.
by
Mena Davidson
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JSTOR Daily
on
May 12, 2022
Motherhood at the End of the World
"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”
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Julietta Singh
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The Paris Review
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September 1, 2021
Chester Higgins’s Life in Pictures
All along the way, his eye is trained on moments of calm, locating an inherent grace, style, and sublime beauty in the Black everyday.
by
Jordan Coley
via
The New Yorker
on
August 27, 2021
How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press
When the U.S. first encountered the “Aesthetic Apostle."
by
Nicholas Frankel
via
Literary Hub
on
July 19, 2021
What Do We Want in a First Lady?
Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.
by
Amy Davidson Sorkin
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The New Yorker
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April 19, 2021
The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
by
Noah Flora
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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
via
The Nation
on
April 5, 2021
The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism
Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.
by
Anna E. Holmes
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The Atlantic
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February 12, 2021
The United States of Dolly Parton
A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout life phases and political cycles.
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
on
October 8, 2020
Civil War Soldiers Used Hair Dye to Make Themselves Look Better in Pictures, Archaeologists Discover
Researchers have found hair dye bottles and evidence of a photographic studio at Camp Nelson—a former Union camp.
by
Aristos Georgiou
via
Newsweek
on
December 9, 2019
How Athleisure Conquered Modern Fashion
The sudden ubiquity of sportswear might seem a little odd. But almost every feature of modern fashion was once adapted from athletics.
by
Derek Thompson
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The Atlantic
on
October 28, 2018
How New York’s Postwar Female Painters Battled for Recognition
The women of the historic Ninth Street Show had a will of iron and an intense need for their talent to be expressed, no matter the cost.
by
Claudia Roth Pierpont
via
The New Yorker
on
October 1, 2018
Inked Irishmen
Irish tattoos in 1860s New York.
by
Damian Shiels
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Irish in the American Civil War
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May 23, 2018
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