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How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History
We’re capturing the mundane as well as the memorable.
by
Allison Marsh
via
IEEE Spectrum
on
June 30, 2020
The Complicated Truths of Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’
No rap album has quite the mythology attached to it—as a game changer, a king maker, a genre expander. But legends aren’t exactly fact.
by
Justin Sayles
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The Ringer
on
April 20, 2020
The Confederacy’s Long Shadow
Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.
by
Dierdre Mask
via
The Economist
on
April 2, 2020
The Loser King
Failing upward with Oliver North.
by
Matt Hanson
via
The Baffler
on
March 10, 2020
The United Farm Workers in Florida Citrus, 1972–1977
If labor organizers learned anything from decades of small victories and stubborn failures in the U.S. South, it was that interracial unions were hard work.
by
Terrell Orr
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Southern Cultures
on
December 4, 2019
An Unfinished Revolution
A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.
by
James Oakes
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New York Review of Books
on
November 21, 2019
The Mafia Style in American Politics
Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.
by
George Packer
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The Atlantic
on
October 3, 2019
Covering for Roy Cohn
A documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.
by
David Klion
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The New Republic
on
September 18, 2019
Blinded by The White: Race And The Exceptionalizing of Ted Bundy
Why America's obsession with Ted Bundy needs to stop.
by
Sean Gerrity
via
Nursing Clio
on
July 18, 2019
When Pat Buchanan Brought Johnny Cash to the Nixon White House
It didn't go exactly as planned. But for TAC's founder, this is where his populist antiwar movement may have begun.
by
Jack Hunter
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The American Conservative
on
May 24, 2019
How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole
Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”
by
Brooke Obie
via
Shadow and Act
on
December 14, 2018
A Skyline Is Born
A history of filmmakers retelling the story of New York’s architecture.
by
Tatum Dooley
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
November 14, 2018
How Does a Film Become Lost?
What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.
by
Andrew Egan
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Tedium
on
October 11, 2018
Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)
Why it's important to know that Marsha P. Johnson did not start the riots at Stonewall.
by
R. E. Fulton
via
Nursing Clio
on
June 26, 2018
Did you know the CIA _____?
Errol Morris and the hot cold war.
by
Malcolm Harris
via
n+1
on
March 7, 2018
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City revisits the plan for a futuristic Minnesota city that would solve urban problems.
by
Allison C. Meier
via
Hyperallergic
on
January 2, 2018
Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam
Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by
Christian G. Appy
,
Patrick Lawrence
via
Salon
on
October 15, 2017
The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.
by
Nick Turse
via
The Intercept
on
September 28, 2017
Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality
The shocking power of immersing oneself in another world was all the buzz once before—about 150 years ago.
by
Clive Thompson
via
Smithsonian
on
September 21, 2017
‘The Vietnam War’: Past All Reason
The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.
by
Andrew J. Bacevich
via
The Nation
on
September 19, 2017
The Insidious Ideology of Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War
Burns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many sides" approach to history at a time when "many sides" is a tool of obfuscation.
by
Alex Shepard
via
The New Republic
on
September 19, 2017
The Mine Wars
The desire for dignity runs deep.
by
Randall MacLowry
via
PBS
on
January 26, 2016
A Hundred Years of Orson Welles
He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.
by
Alex Ross
via
The New Yorker
on
November 30, 2015
Footage of the Twin Towers Being Built (1976)
A film produced by Western Electric, a haunting glimpse into the construction of the Twin Towers in New York and their early use.
via
The Public Domain Review
on
September 10, 2015
Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck
The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
by
Lisa Hix
via
Collectors Weekly
on
December 12, 2014
Black Is Beautiful: Why Black Dolls Matter
"Why do you have black dolls?"
by
Lisa Hix
via
Collectors Weekly
on
February 21, 2013
American Pastoral
Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.
by
Charles Petersen
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n+1
on
February 26, 2010
American Dreamers
Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
by
William Hogeland
via
Boston Review
on
May 1, 2008
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