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The Beautiful, Genuine Artistry of Retro Video Games

Amidst so much politics and tribalism, they can provide portals into thoughtfully rendered alternate worlds.
by Addison Del Mastro via The American Conservative on May 18, 2018

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Inside the Band's Complicated History With the South

The Southern-rock group is much different than the one Ronnie Van Zant led in the Seventies.
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine via Rolling Stone on May 15, 2018
Map of the arms trade.

The Roots of America’s Gun Culture

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.
by Priya Satia, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on April 19, 2018

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018
North Street, Boston, in 1894.

Secrets of a Brothel Privy

An archaeologist reconstructs the daily lives of 19th-century sex workers in Boston.
by Anna Goldfield via Sapiens on March 6, 2018

The Latin American Aesthetic of L.A. Music Culture

Understanding the immense reach and cultural implications of Latin American music.
by Benjamin Cawthra via Boom California on February 7, 2018

Everyday Soviet Nostalgia

Retracing the 1947 journey that John Steinbeck and Robert Capa took to introduce America to Soviet life.
by Laura Reston via The New Republic on January 2, 2018
Walt Whitman's death mask with his eyes closed.

Out From Behind This Mask

A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids.
by D. Graham Burnett via The Public Domain Review on July 27, 2017
Drawing of two clowns holding a large ring.

Dream Reading

Interpreting dreams for fun and profit. The importance of oneiromancy (dream reading) to American betting culture.
by Ann Fabian via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 1, 2016
Photograph of a children's choir singing within the outlines of the United States.

How “Fifty Nifty United States” Became One of the Greatest Mnemonic Devices of All Time

How you, your friends, and Lin-Manuel Miranda all learned this catchy, state-naming tune.
by L. V. Anderson via Slate on November 30, 2015
Fats Domino's restored white piano in a museum in New Orleans.

An Object Lesson: What The Restoration of Fats Domino's Piano Means to New Orleans

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the legend’s showpiece symbolizes the city's resilience.
by Mary Niall Mitchell via The Atlantic on August 26, 2015
Portrait of Edward Gibbon

Bonfire of the Humanities

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
by Samuel Moyn via The Nation on January 21, 2015

A Little Bit Softer Now, a Little Bit Softer Now…

The gradual decline of the fade-out in popular music.
by William Weir via Slate on September 15, 2014

Anglo-Americans

While Louisiana began as a French colony and its culture remained Creole, its Anglo-American population formed a large minority in the late colonial period.
by Lo Faber via 64 Parishes on December 11, 2012
Henry Clay's body in his death bed, surrounded by mourners.

All That Remains of Henry Clay

Political funerals and the tour of Henry Clay's corpse.
by Sarah J. Purcell via Commonplace on April 2, 2012
Image of a father and child walking on a beach.

Mythologizing Fatherhood

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.
by Ralph LaRossa via National Council On Family Relations on March 1, 2009
Joseph Dennie.

Was the Federalist Press Staid and Apolitical?

Quite the contrary. They used rhetoric to build a partisan community, and realized that parties needed to create and market identities, not simply agendas.
by Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan via Commonplace on October 1, 2008
Jennifer 8 Lee.

The Hunt for General Tso

The origins of Chinese-American dishes, and the spots where these two cultures have combined to form a new cuisine.
by Jennifer 8 Lee via TED on July 1, 2008
Salmon fisheries at Celilo Falls.

Ken Kesey Meets Lewis and Clark

Celilo Falls was the economic and spiritual center of the Indian world in the Pacific Northwest.
by George Rohrbacher via Commonplace on January 16, 2006

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