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The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business

The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.
by Richard R. John via Made by History on April 27, 2020
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What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on April 20, 2020

If You Think Quarantine Life Is Weird Today, Try Living It in 1918

From atomizer crazes to stranded actor troupes to school by phone, daily life during the flu pandemic was a trip.
by Michael Waters via Slate on April 17, 2020

America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology

In the 1790s a plague struck the new American nation and killed thousands. Noah Webster told the story of pandemics and invented a field.
by Joshua Kendall via Made By History on April 4, 2020

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
by Amy Hoffman via Boston Review on April 2, 2020

How America’s Newspapers Covered Up a Pandemic

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.
by Walter Shapiro via The New Republic on March 31, 2020

The First Lady of American Journalism

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.
by Nancy F. Cott via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 17, 2020

Foolish Questions

Screwball comics wage a gleeful war on civilization and its discontents—armed mostly with water-pistols, stink bombs, and laughing gas.
by Art Spiegelman via New York Review of Books on February 25, 2020

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.
by Serena Zabin via Literary Hub on February 20, 2020

“Kiss Via Kerchief”: Influenza Warnings in 1918

If kissing was deemed necessary during the flu pandemic, a handkerchief should be used to prevent direct contact with the lips.
by E. Thomas Ewing via Nursing Clio on February 12, 2020

A Matter of Facts

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
by Sean Wilentz via The Atlantic on January 22, 2020

Why We Should Remember William Monroe Trotter

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.
by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on December 29, 2019
Newspaper clipping of article titled the rise and fall of facts.

The Rise and Fall of Facts

Tracing the evolution and challenges of fact-checking in journalism.
by Colin Dickey via Columbia Journalism Review on December 6, 2019
Mexican tenor Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, La Prensa publisher Ignacio Lozano, and Hollywood actor Antonio Moreno before a performance to benefit the Mexican Clinic in San Antonio

How Three Texas Newspapers Manufactured Three Competing Images of Immigrants

In Depression-era San Antonio, polarized portraits of Mexicans appealed to the biases of readers.
by Melita M. Garza via Zócalo Public Square on December 5, 2019

The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to "Peanuts"

How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.
by Chris Ware via The New Yorker on September 24, 2019

How Media was Social in the 1790s

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?
by Jordan E. Taylor via The Panorama on September 3, 2019

The Deadly Race Riot ‘Aided and Abetted’ by the Washington Post a Century Ago

A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on July 15, 2019

An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness

How could Armstrong, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?
by Gwen Thompkins via The New Yorker on July 8, 2019

‘An Essential Force in American History,’ Chicago Defender to Stop Print Publication

The storied African American newspaper will switch to a digital-only platform starting July 11.
by Mitchell Armentrout via Chicago Sun-Times on July 5, 2019

Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn

A virtual tour from the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
by Elizabeth Della Zazzera via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 26, 2019
Women voters cast ballots at 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, in 1917.

New York’s First-Time Women Voters

A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
by Jessica Kirzane, Miriam Karpilove via Jewish Currents on June 4, 2019

Reading the Black Hills Pioneer, Deadwood’s Newspaper

Here’s how the Black Hills Pioneer reported on major events in the HBO series.
by Matthew Dessem via Slate on June 2, 2019

The Artists and Writers Who Fought Racism With Satire in Jim Crow Mississippi

How William Faulkner and a small group of provocateurs challenged segregation in ways that resonate today.
by William Browning via Atlas Obscura on May 29, 2019

New Online: The AP Washington Bureau, 1915-1930

Wire service reporting from the capital provided much of the nation with coverage of federal government and politics.
by Ryan Reft, Neely Tucker via Library of Congress Blog on May 16, 2019
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The Mob Violence of the Red Summer

In 1919, a brutal outburst of mob violence was directed against African Americans across the United States. White, uniformed servicemen led the charge.
by David F. Krugler, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on May 14, 2019
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The Media Revolution that Guided Paul Revere’s Ride

An anti-imperialist network made his warning possible.
by Joseph M. Adelman via Made by History on April 19, 2019

'I Love America': Fundamentalist Responses to World War II

The fundamentalist movement took the war as an opportunity to rebrand.
by Anderson Rouse via Process: A Blog for American History on March 12, 2019
Portrait of Jim Nicholson.

Jim Nicholson, Champion of the Common-Man Obituary, Dies at 76

“Who would you miss more when he goes on vacation,” Nicholson liked to ask, “the secretary of state or your garbage man?”
by Adam Berstein via Washington Post on February 23, 2019
Fugitive slave ad taken out by Thomas Jefferson.

Freedom on the Move

A database of fugitives from American Slavery.
via Freedom on the Move Project on February 20, 2019
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Guilty of Miscegenation

A look at anti-miscegenation laws across the United States.
via BackStory on February 15, 2019
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