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Monuments Upon the Tumultuous Earth
For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.
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Boyce Upholt
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Emergence Magazine
on
March 23, 2023
Percy Julian and the False Promise of Exceptionalism
Reflecting on the trailblazing chemist’s fight for dignity and the myths we tell about our scientific heroes.
by
Alexis J. Pedrick
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Distillations
on
March 16, 2023
The Obscene Invention of California Capitalism
A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.
by
Malcolm Harris
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Emma Hager
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The Nation
on
March 15, 2023
Collapsing Pluralism: The Bosnian War Three Decades Later
The US is not Yugoslavia, but its struggles surrounding pluralism, nationalism, and an urban/rural divide parallel those Yugoslavia faced as it descended into chaos.
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Ryan Reft
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Tropics of Meta
on
March 13, 2023
The Reckless History of the Automobile
In "The Car," Bryan Appleyard sets out to celebrate the freedom these vehicles granted. But what if they were a dangerous technology from the start?
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Paris Marx
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The Nation
on
March 13, 2023
The “Dazed and Confused” Generation
People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.
by
Bruce Handy
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The New Yorker
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March 2, 2023
The "Here" of Magical Thinking
A new book offers a critical history of Silicon Valley's blend of California idealism and exploitation.
by
David Helps
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Protean
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March 1, 2023
Blundering Into Baghdad
The right—and wrong—lessons of the Iraq War.
by
Hal Brands
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Foreign Affairs
on
February 28, 2023
David Grim’s Fairy Tale: The New York City Fire In Myth
We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.
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Benjamin L. Carp
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The Gotham Center for New York City History
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February 15, 2023
Richard Wright’s Civil War Cipher
Archival records of Black southerners' military desertion tribunals can be read as a distinct form of political action.
by
Jonathan Lande
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Process: A Blog for American History
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February 14, 2023
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It Took Until 2023 for Two Black QBs to Start in a Super Bowl. Here’s Why.
Ideas dating back to slavery have minimized opportunities for Black quarterbacks in the NFL.
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Kate Aguilar
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Made by History
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February 12, 2023
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We Mythologize Highways, But They’ve Damaged Communities of Color
Planners of the Interstate Highway System ignored warnings that they were damaging poor Black and Latino neighborhoods.
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Ryan Reft
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Made by History
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January 19, 2023
Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn’t Save Us Then Either
Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.
by
Adolph Reed Jr.
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Nonsite
on
January 8, 2023
A Means to an End
The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.
by
Michael D. Hattem
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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December 23, 2022
What Hollywood’s Ultimate Oral History Reveals
For all the clouds of publicity, the dream machine is actually a craft business. Have we asked too much of it?
by
Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
on
November 28, 2022
Revisiting the Legacy of Jackie Robinson
The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.
by
Paul Putz
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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November 1, 2022
In Jon Meacham’s Biography, Lincoln Is a Guiding Light For Our Times
The famous historian makes the claim that the demigods of American historical mythology can help us carve paths through our forbidding 21st-century wilderness.
by
John Fabian Witt
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Washington Post
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October 24, 2022
A Fiery Gospel
A conversation about changing the American story.
by
Lewis H. Lapham
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Kermit Roosevelt III
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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September 19, 2022
The Myth of Racial Reconciliation
We will never truly achieve racial justice until we, collectively, learn how to treat and heal the wound of white supremacy.
by
Malcolm Brian Foley
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Anxious Bench
on
September 7, 2022
How Jonathan Edwards Influenced Southern Baptists
Southern Baptists were seeking a religion of the heart, and in Edwards they discovered a trove of treatises, biographies, and sermons on Christian spirituality.
by
Obbie Tyler Todd
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The Gospel Coalition
on
July 29, 2022
Majority Rule on the Brink
The legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for an embattled republic.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Chris Lehmann
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The Forum
on
July 27, 2022
Can SCOTUS Majority Learn the Lessons of Early America Before it's Too Late?
Breaking down the myths of originalism and America's founding.
by
J. L. Tomlin
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Thomas Lecaque
via
Religion Dispatches
on
July 18, 2022
Who Digs the Mines?
A new book recognizes the global character of Asian exclusion.
by
Andrew Liu
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London Review of Books
on
July 13, 2022
Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers
It's where legends like Tina Turner and Ray Charles launched their careers.
by
Adrian Miller
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Atlas Obscura
on
June 28, 2022
All the Newsroom’s Men
How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history.
by
Joshua Benton
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Nieman Lab
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June 7, 2022
The Myth of the Rapid Mobility of European Immigrants
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the data illusion of the rags-to-riches stories.
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Ran Abramitzky
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Leah Platt Boustan
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Literary Hub
on
June 1, 2022
The People Who Hate People
Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.
by
Jerusalem Demsas
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The Atlantic
on
May 24, 2022
The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers
In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine.
by
Esther Bergdahl
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Smithsonian
on
May 24, 2022
Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy
Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found in the disinvested ruins of the city a new egalitarian form of politics.
by
Jared Loggins
via
The Nation
on
April 18, 2022
Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight
As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.
by
Dave Zirin
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The Nation
on
April 15, 2022
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