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The Crumbling Monuments of the Age of Marble

The 20th century produced monuments to a false consensus—can the 21st century create a more representative commemorative sphere?

by Mason B. Williams via The Atlantic on December 6, 2015

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

A group of two women and one child watches a military procession pass.

How the US Military Became a Welfare State

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

by Jennifer Mittelstadt via Aeon on September 21, 2015

Obama standing with his official presidential portrait.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library lands on Chicago.

by Rick Perlstein via The Baffler on July 1, 2015

Green House: A Brief History of “American Poetry”

Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.

by Frank Guan via Prelude on September 22, 2014

Against Presentism

An argument against looking at our past through the lens of today.

by Lynn A. Hunt via Perspectives on History on May 1, 2002

Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.

by Alston Chase via The Atlantic on June 1, 2000

Oscar Robertson

Black Champions: Interview with Oscar Robertson

On coaches' unequal treatment of African American college basketball players.

by Clayton Riley via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on December 13, 1984

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