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Workers Have Been Fighting Automation Ever Since Capitalism Began
Automation didn’t start in the age of robots and microchips, but can be traced back to the late 19th century glass industry and its skilled glass workers.
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Alison Kowalski
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Jacobin
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April 8, 2022
Enjoy My Flames
On heavy metal’s fascination with Roman emperors.
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Jeremy Swist
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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March 23, 2022
The Danger of a Single Origin Story
The 1619 Project and contested foundings.
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Emily Sclafani
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Perspectives on History
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February 9, 2022
Read More Puritan Poetry
Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.
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Ed Simon
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The Millions
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February 4, 2022
Those Who Know
On Raoul Peck's "Exterminate all the Brutes" and the limits of rewriting the narrative.
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Nick Martin
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The Drift
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January 27, 2022
The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon”
Margaret Wise Brown constantly pushed boundaries—in her life and in her art.
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Anna E. Holmes
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The New Yorker
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January 27, 2022
The Story of Capitalism in One Family
The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America.
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Alisa Solomon
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The Nation
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January 26, 2022
Salt and Deep History in the Ohio Country
Early American salt makers exploited productive precedents established by generations of people who had engaged with salt resources for thousands of years.
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Annabel LaBrecque
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Commonplace
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January 1, 2022
One Ancient Culture Actually Benefited From 'The Worst Year in Human History'
The challenges of 536 CE, including cold temperatures and volcanic fallout, prompted a flourishing of Ancestral Pueblo society.
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Mike McRae
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ScienceAlert
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December 3, 2021
How the American Right Claimed Thanksgiving for Its Own
Pass the free enterprise, please.
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Lawrence B. Glickman
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Slate
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November 22, 2021
When Benjamin Franklin Shocked Himself While Attempting to Electrocute a Turkey
The statesman was embarrassed by the mishap—no doubt a murder most fowl.
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Timothy J. Jorgensen
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Smithsonian
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November 22, 2021
The Origins of Halloween Traditions
Carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and wearing scary costumes are some of the time-honored traditions of Halloween. But why do we do them?
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Heather Thomas
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Library of Congress
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October 26, 2021
New Dating Method Shows Vikings Occupied Newfoundland in 1021 C.E.
Tree ring evidence of an ancient solar storm enables scientists to pinpoint the exact year of Norse settlement.
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Brian Handwerk
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Smithsonian
on
October 20, 2021
National Monument Audit
A massive assessment of the nation's current monument landscape, posing questions about common knowledge and debunking misperceptions within public memory.
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Monument Lab
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September 29, 2021
Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery
New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.
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Matthew Gabriele
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David M. Perry
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Smithsonian
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September 27, 2021
The Evangelical Abortion Myth
The rhetoric about abortion being the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right collapses under scrutiny.
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Randall Balmer
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Religion Dispatches
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August 30, 2021
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Every American Needs to Take a History of Mexico Class
Learning the history of Mexico can help Americans better understand themselves.
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Gabriela Soto Laveaga
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Made by History
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July 22, 2021
Out to Sea
Since the 1970s, the U.S. and Russia have used marine mammals to further their military objectives, sparking protest from animal rights activists.
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Susanna Space
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Guernica
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July 15, 2021
'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?
What’s new about the controversy over the Alamo’s history, and how the way Texans tell its story relates to how Americans see each other.
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Olivia B. Waxman
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Made By History
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July 13, 2021
Puritanism as a State of Mind
Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.
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Glen A. Moots
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Law & Liberty
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April 30, 2021
All the President’s Historians
Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?
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Daniel N. Gullotta
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The Bulwark
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April 20, 2021
Pimento-cracy
The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
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Oxford American
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March 23, 2021
An Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy
One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.
by
Casey Michel
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The New Republic
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March 12, 2021
"Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth"
Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.
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Daryl Michael Scott
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Len Gutkin
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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March 10, 2021
Experiments in Self-Reliance
Thoreau’s life is a lesson not in self-reliance, but in discerning whom and what to rely on, whether you’re one person or a state of 29 million.
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Jonathan Malesic
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Commonweal
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February 24, 2021
You Can Now Explore the CIA's 'Entire' Collection of UFO Documents Online
Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.
by
Isis Davis-Marks
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Smithsonian
on
January 15, 2021
The Hour of the Barbarian
What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.
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Vincent Bevins
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n+1
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January 11, 2021
How Young America Came to Love Beethoven
On the 250th anniversary of the famous composer’s birth, the story of how his music first took hold across the Atlantic.
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Nora McGreevy
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Smithsonian
on
December 16, 2020
The End of the Businessman President
Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.
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Kyle Edward Williams
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The New Republic
on
December 9, 2020
Whitewashing the Great Depression
How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image.
by
Sarah Boxer
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The Atlantic
on
November 15, 2020
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