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The View from the Middle of Everything
Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois.
by
Kristin L. Hoganson
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Literary Hub
on
April 25, 2019
The Prophet Is Human
A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.
by
Mary F. Corey
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
April 11, 2019
Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South
Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by
Sarah Handley-Cousins
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Diane Miller Sommerville
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Nursing Clio
on
March 20, 2019
Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement
Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.
by
Sam Bock
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Erstwhile: A History Blog
on
February 27, 2019
A Frederick Douglass Reading List
Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.
by
Jaime Fuller
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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February 21, 2019
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives
On a presidential paper trail.
by
Robert A. Caro
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The New Yorker
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January 22, 2019
Lynching In Texas
A website with documents, maps, and essays about the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945.
by
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
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Sam Houston State University
on
January 1, 2019
The World Through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
by
Russell Goldenberg
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The Pudding
on
December 15, 2018
The First Midterm ‘Wave’ Election That Ended Total Republican Control of Government
In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.
by
Robert B. Mitchell
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Retropolis
on
November 4, 2018
Lewis Levin Wasn't Cool
The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum.
by
Zachary M. Schrag
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Tablet
on
October 22, 2018
When Wilde Met Whitman
As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."
by
Michèle Mendelssohn
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Literary Hub
on
July 16, 2018
Convulsions Within: When Printing the Declaration of Independence Turns Partisan
Even America's founding document isn't immune to the powers of polarization.
by
Emily Sneff
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Age of Revolutions
on
July 4, 2018
Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon's Battle Against 'The Man'
Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.
by
Judith Shulevitz
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New York Review of Books
on
June 26, 2018
The Great Unsolved Mystery of Missing Marjorie West
Even before mass media coverage of child abductions, American parents had reason to fear the worst if their child went missing.
by
Caren Lissner
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Narratively
on
May 5, 2018
How Congress Used the Post Office to Unite the Nation
Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.
by
Stephen Mihm
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Bloomberg
on
April 4, 2018
The Power of the Advice Columnist
From Benjamin Franklin to Quora, how advice has shaped Americans’ behavior and expectations of the world.
by
Alexandra Molotkow
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The New Republic
on
March 26, 2018
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How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie
A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.
by
Jennifer Mendelsohn
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Peter A. Shulman
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Made by History
on
March 15, 2018
A Homecoming for Murray Kempton
Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.
by
Andrew Holter
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 13, 2017
The Battle Between Baseball and Cricket for American Sporting Supremacy
We could have had a very different World Series.
by
Daniel Crown
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Atlas Obscura
on
October 19, 2017
From Liberty Tree to Taking a Knee
How America's founding era sheds light on the NFL controversy.
by
Stephen Solomon
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First Amendment Watch
on
October 12, 2017
The Fake-News Fallacy
Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.
by
Adrian Chen
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The New Yorker
on
September 4, 2017
partner
White Supremacists and the Rhetoric of "Tyranny"
White supremacists have long used fear of losing essential rights in their arguments.
by
Livia Gershon
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Marek D. Steedman
via
JSTOR Daily
on
August 31, 2017
The Story Behind the First-Ever Fact-Checkers
Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.
by
Merrill Fabry
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Made By History
on
August 24, 2017
The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Portraits
One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.
by
Michael Waters
via
Atlas Obscura
on
July 12, 2017
Black Gullah Culture Fascinated Americans Just As President Coolidge Visited
The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.
by
Melissa L. Cooper
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Timeline
on
July 7, 2017
In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left
Despite its persistence in popular culture, extraterrestrial life owes more to the imagination than reality.
by
Donovan Webster
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Smithsonian
on
July 5, 2017
Compare the Two Versions of Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech
Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?
by
Leslie Podell
via
The Sojourner Truth Project
on
June 6, 2017
The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning of the long road to Washington, D.C.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
via
Longreads
on
June 5, 2017
Lessons From the Fake News Pandemic of 1942
The South couldn't stop the rumors. Can we?
by
Joshua Zeitz
via
Politico Magazine
on
March 12, 2017
How 19th Century Techno-Skeptics Ridiculed Thomas Edison
At his peak, newspapers loved to tease the inventor. They also feared him.
by
Cara Giaimo
via
Atlas Obscura
on
February 28, 2017
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