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What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on October 12, 2017

John Adams

Why Trump’s Assault on NBC and “Fake News” Threatens Freedom of the Press

Restricting the press backfires politically.

by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on October 12, 2017

Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of Playboy

Perhaps the only true generalization to make about Hefner is that he is given too much credit for his role in American history.

by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on September 29, 2017

Young men show a reporter how to make molotov cocktails in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in July 1966. (Bill Ray/Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967

A riot represents people making history.

by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on September 23, 2017

Who is the Enemy Here?

The Vietnam War pictures that moved them most.

by Alice Gabriner via TIME on September 15, 2017

Question in a quiz about nativist newspaper headlines.

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.

by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion, Peter A. Shulman via Slate on September 14, 2017

How Vietnam Dramatically Changed Our Views on Honor and War

The military’s focus on individual service members in the late years of Vietnam has created a permanent legacy

by Richard Lachmann via The Conversation on September 13, 2017

Understanding the Antifa

The anti-fascist left stems from a long tradition of violence and protest in America.

by Nicole Hemmer via U.S. News & World Report on September 5, 2017

Teachers and their supporters picketing.

The Media Still Gets the Working Class Wrong — But Not in the Way You Think.

The U.S. working class is tremendously diverse — and growing in strength.

by Lane Windham via Made By History on September 3, 2017

The TV That Created Donald Trump

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017

Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on June 22, 2017

How a Magazine Cover From the '70s Helped Wonder Woman Win Over Feminists

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine's first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact.

by Katie Kilkenny via Pacific Standard on June 21, 2017

Woodcuts and Witches

On the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone.

by Jon Crabb via The Public Domain Review on May 4, 2017

FDR's War Against the Press

Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.

by David Beito via Reason on April 5, 2017

When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

by Sam Tanenhaus via Esquire on April 5, 2017

The Moment That Political Debates on TV Turned to Spectacle

A new documentary explores the infamous 1968 dispute between William Buckley and Gore Vidal.

by Nadine Ajaka via The Atlantic on September 27, 2016

W.E.B. Du Bois.

Racial Violence in Black and White

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

by Benjamin Balthaser via Boston Review on July 13, 2016

The Corrupted American Innocence of Archie Comics

Behind the veil of middle-class acceptability, Archie comics shaped the conception of virtue in postwar America.

by Emma Cline via The New Yorker on July 7, 2016

Ronald Reagan Was Once Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.

by Frank Rich via Intelligencer on June 1, 2016

TIME's 'Is God Dead?' Cover Turns 50

How the April 8, 1966, cover of TIME set off a firestorm.

via TIME on April 8, 2016

Donald Trump Isn’t a Fascist; He’s a Media-Savvy Know-Nothing

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

by John Cassidy via The New Yorker on December 28, 2015

Woman holding a turkey on a platter.

The Modern Invention of Thanksgiving

The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.

by Anne Blue Wills, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on November 26, 2014

The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic

Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio program did not touch off nationwide hysteria. Why does the legend persist?

by Michael J. Socolow, Jefferson Pooley via Slate on October 28, 2013

Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.

by Donna Gabaccia via Social Science Research Council on July 28, 2006

Screen shots and captions from a public service campaign about the economy.

The Ad Campaign for Capitalism

In the 1970s, corporate America struck back at the forces attempting to rein it in. One of their tactics was a public service announcement.

by David Sirota, Jared Jacang Maher via The American Prospect on October 13, 2025

A cassette copy of the film soundtrack for "Until the End of the World."

The Last Time I Rewound

VHS, Star Wars, and the freedom to remember.

by Nic Hoffmann via Tropics of Meta on September 30, 2025

Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabbar practicing martial arts.

When Bruce Lee Trained With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When Bruce Lee met Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he was still known as Lew Alcindor, the most hyped young basketball star in history.

by Jeff Chang via Literary Hub on September 25, 2025

Japanese screen depicting Europeans coming to trade.

The Last Witnesses: Preserving the History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

In the Embers series, historian M.G. Sheftall shares the stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s last survivors and reveals why their testimony must endure.

by Kevin Dickinson via Big Think on August 20, 2025

Microphone tangled in barbed wire.

The Case That Saved the Press – And Why Trump Wants It Gone

A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press from angry public officials filing lawsuits. It’s being targeted by President Donald Trump.

by Stephanie A. Martin via The Conversation on August 4, 2025

Frederic Remington painting of cowboys galloping through the desert, firing guns over their shoulders at their pursuers.

“Lord, Teach My Hands To War, My Fingers To Fight”

The cowboy apocalypse and American gun fandom.

by Rachel Wagner via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 15, 2025

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