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WWII’s Refugee Academics and the Myth of a Welcoming American Academy

A new book looks at the lives of Jewish professors who sought asylum in the U.S. and were denied entry.

by Hannah Stamler via The Nation on February 26, 2020

Several stores in a 20th century shopping mall

Paul Samuelson Brought Mathematical Economics to the Masses

Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name.

by Roger Backhouse via Aeon on February 10, 2020

How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Humanities on January 2, 2020

Why We Should Remember William Monroe Trotter

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on December 29, 2019

Writing the History of Capitalism with Class

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

by Thomas Jessen Adams via Nonsite on September 9, 2019

Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.

Race in Black and White

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.

by Alexis L. Boylan via Boston Review on June 3, 2019

How Charitable Donations Remade Our Courts

The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.

by Dylan Matthews via Vox on May 29, 2019

Jefferson, Adams, and the SAT’s New Adversity Factor

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 23, 2019

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.

by Nan Enstad via Boston Review on March 20, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."

by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Less Than Grand Strategy

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on November 21, 2018

Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.

by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018

The Tools of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley’s sixty-year love affair with the word “tool.”

by Moira Weigel via The New Yorker on April 11, 2018

The Power Historian

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

by David Marcus via The Nation on October 12, 2017

A broken pencil lays on top of a standardized testing answer sheet

What Today’s Education Reformers Can Learn From Henry David Thoreau

Snobbish elitism will hurt their cause.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on July 12, 2017

The 1879 Yale Football Team posing for a photo with captain Walter Camp.

What Would the Father of American Football Make of the Modern Game?

Walter Camp praised the sport as a way to toughen up élite young white men. Despite changes to the game and society, his legacy remains.

by Ian Crouch via The New Yorker on November 19, 2015

Political Carton of President Theodore Rossevelt boxing his 1904 election opponent Alton Parker.

The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt's Mixed Martial Arts

Almost a century before mixing martial arts became popularized, the 26th President was boxing, wrestling, and training judo in the White House.

by Sarah Kurchak via Vice on May 4, 2015

Portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

by Nicholas Lemann via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2014

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