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How Public Opinion May Decide the FTC Amazon Antitrust Suit

In the 1920s, electricity monopolies survived an antitrust investigation because they had won over the public.

by Daniel Robert via Made by History on October 24, 2023

Madame Restell

‘Hag of Misery’

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

by Susan Faludi via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2023

Smoke coming from Exxon Mobil plant

Inside Exxon's Strategy To Downplay Climate Change

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era.

by Christopher Matthews, Collin Eaton via The Wall Street Journal on September 14, 2023

Police with face shields in street

Why Aren’t Cops Held to Account?

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on August 30, 2023

Former President Donald Trump with his attorneys inside the courtroom during his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023.

A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan Acts

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.

by Joseph Kelly via The Conversation on August 4, 2023

Demonstrators with signs supporting affirmative action.

Why the Supreme Court Endorsed, Then Limited Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.

via Retro Report on July 25, 2023

Hands placing silhouettes of witnesses onto a chart using tweezers.

An Offer You Can’t Refuse

How a mob statute metastasized.

by Piper French via The Drift on July 12, 2023

Above view of residential areas in Richmond, Virginia.

How the Former Confederate Capital Slashed Black Voting Power, Overnight

Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.

by Leila Barghouty via Retropolis on July 9, 2023

Graphic showing a gasoline tank (in green) leaking underground.

The Hidden Cost of Gasoline

Gas stations caused a $20 billion toxic mess — and it’s not going away.

by Kate Yoder via Grist on June 14, 2023

Portrait of William Costin.

Did Martha Washington Have a Black Grandson?

Likely the child of Martha's son from her first marriage, William Costin used his position to advocate for D.C.'s free Black community.

by Cassandra A. Good via Smithsonian on June 5, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court building, left, and Kurt Vonnegut, right.

The Largely Forgotten Book Ban Case That Went Up to the Supreme Court

Library book bans are fueling national fights and a new Florida lawsuit. But only one case has come before the Supreme Court: Island Trees v. Pico.

by Anthony Aycock via Retropolis on May 20, 2023

Big Bill Haywood, Adolph Lessing, and Carlo Tresca, Paterson, New Jersey, 1913.

The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union

A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on May 15, 2023

Inside Bryan's Museum, with a mannequin dressed as a Texas Ranger.

Those Who Don't Know the Past…

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.

by Josephine Lee via The Texas Observer on May 15, 2023

A microphone animated as a black snake.

The Dark Side of Defamation Law

A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?

by Jeannie Suk Gersen via The New Yorker on May 11, 2023

A topographical map from the 1850s showing Alexander's Island as an entity in the Potomac

A Cartographer’s Lament: The D.C. - Virginia Boundary That Wouldn't Stay Put

Was this Virginia? No one was quite sure.

by Jane Winik Sartwell via Boundary Stones on April 21, 2023

Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon.

There Is a Precedent for Trump’s Indictment: Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew was the progenitor of Trump’s politics. He also resigned from office and accepted a plea deal to avoid jail time.

by Jerald Podair via Made by History on April 10, 2023

Three demonstrators hold proabortion signs outside the federal courthouse in Amarillo, Tex. (David Erickson/AP)

Abortion Pill Decision Reveals How the Debate Has Changed Since Dobbs

The medication abortion decision by a federal judge in Texas focused on the rights of fetuses and the interests of doctors — not the rights of women.

by Felicia Kornbluh via Made by History on April 10, 2023

Collage of images: UC Berkeley clocktower, professor Tim White in 1979, and a collection of boxes of human remains labeled as "clavicle, vertibrae," etc.

A Top UC Berkeley Professor Taught With Remains That May Include Dozens of Native Americans

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes.

by Mary Hudetz, Graham Lee Brewer via ProPublica on March 5, 2023

3 of the Tanesar goddesses placed in a wooden crate lined with police tape.

The Goddess Complex

A set of revered stone deities stolen from a temple in northwestern India can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking.

by Elizabeth Kadetsky via The American Scholar on March 2, 2023

Rev. Billy Graham with President Kennedy.

Suing the FBI and Uncovering a History of White Christian Nationalism

A new book calls white evangelicals to reckon with the fact that the groundwork for their movement was laid, in part, by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI.

by Lerone A. Martin via The Revealer on February 7, 2023

Why Do Modern Pop Songs Have So Many Credited Writers?

How modern songwriting evolved into a game of aggressive credit—even for the people who didn’t technically do the composing.

by Chris Dalla Riva via Tedium on February 4, 2023

Civil Rights Legislation Sparked Powerful Backlash that's Still Shaping American Politics

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

by Julian Maxwell Hayter via The Conversation on February 3, 2023

Illustrated faces and hands handling birth control pills, money, and a fetus.

The Abortion Pill’s Secret Money Men

The untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex—and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs.

by Hannah Levintova via Mother Jones on January 24, 2023

People walk amid the destruction in Rosewood.

How History Forgot Rosewood, a Black Town Razed by a White Mob

A century ago, a false accusation sparked the destruction of the Florida community.

by Craig Pittman via Smithsonian on January 4, 2023

Collage of eyes.

Who’s Watching

The evolution of the right to privacy.

by Marina Manoukian via The Baffler on December 1, 2022

Flag of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Supreme Court Case That Could Break Native American Sovereignty

Haaland v. Brackeen could have major consequences for tribes’ right to exist as political entities.

by Rebecca Nagle via The Atlantic on November 8, 2022

Black and white image of Charles Hamilton Houston, standing at a desk alongside other attorneys, circa 1940.

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the History Behind Colorblind Admissions

Colorblindness has a long history in college admissions, the Black intellectual tradition, and today’s assault on affirmative action and race-conscious policies.

by Brandon James Render via Black Perspectives on November 4, 2022

A father and son stand in front of an illustration of a circular target, while the son holds a small gun.

American as Apple Pie

How marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.

by Rachael Kay Albers via JSTOR Daily on October 19, 2022

Lithograph of Aaron Burr

The Case of Aaron Burr Suggests Donald Trump Won’t Face Consequences

Despite several new lawsuits, investigations, and the bombshell revelations, Trump’s fate will be like that of the former vice president.

by Nicholas Foreman via Made by History on October 5, 2022

The American flag depicted upside down, in a beige color scheme.

Making the Constitution Safe for Democracy

The second section of the Fourteenth Amendment offers severe penalties for menacing the right to vote—if anyone can figure out how to enforce it.

by Anthony Conwright via The Forum on August 17, 2022

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