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Lucy Brewer and the Making of a Female Marine
An account of the first female to serve in the U.S. Navy.
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Maria Connors
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Past Is Present
on
June 8, 2021
Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience
If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by
Mae Ngai
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The Atlantic
on
April 21, 2021
How Black Women Brought Liberty to Washington in the 1800s
A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.
by
Tamika Nunley
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Karin Wulf
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Smithsonian
on
March 5, 2021
Ye Olde Morality-Enforcement Brigades
The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.
by
Matthew Wills
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Bryan D. Palmer
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JSTOR Daily
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May 20, 2020
COVID-19 and Welfare Queens
Fears about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance have deep ties to racism and the policing of black women’s bodies.
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Scott Wasserman Stern
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Boston Review
on
April 17, 2020
The Real Calamity Jane Was Distressingly Unlike Her Legend
A frontier character's life was crafted to be legendary, but was the real person as incredible?
by
Sam Leith
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The American Spectator
on
February 6, 2020
“Female Monthly Pills” and the Coded Language of Abortion Before Roe
Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.
by
Melissa Gira Grant
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The New Republic
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January 22, 2020
The Christian History of Korean-American Adoption
How World Vision and Compassion International sparked an Oregon family to raise eight mixed-race children.
by
Soojin Chung
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Christianity Today
on
October 9, 2019
How John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top
It became the first and only X-rated movie to win a best picture Oscar.
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Koraljka Suton
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Cinephilia & Beyond
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August 4, 2019
The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime
Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.
by
Caleb Crain
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The New Yorker
on
June 26, 2019
To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World's Worst Sandwich
It was everywhere at the turn of the 20th century. It was also inedible.
by
Darrell Hartman
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Atlas Obscura
on
June 3, 2019
The 1930s Investigation That Took Down New York's Mayor—and Then Tammany Hall
When FDR found out how beholden New York politicians were to mobsters, he ordered the Seabury commission to investigate.
by
Erin Blakemore
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HISTORY
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April 17, 2019
A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History
Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.
by
Sarah Rose Sharp
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Hyperallergic
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April 15, 2019
‘Bad Bridgets’: The Criminal and Deviant Irish Women Convicted in America
Irish-born women were disproportionately imprisoned in America for most of the nineteenth century.
by
Elaine Farrell
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Leanne McCormick
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The Irish Times
on
February 20, 2019
Colorizing and Fictionalizing the Past
The technical wizardry of Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" should not obscure its narrow, outdated storyline.
by
Bridget Keown
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Nursing Clio
on
February 12, 2019
An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History
What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.
by
Saidiya Hartman
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The New Yorker
on
February 9, 2019
An Enduring Shame
A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.
by
Heather Ann Thompson
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New York Review of Books
on
October 7, 2018
Bad Blood
The history of eugenics in the Progressive Age.
by
Patricia J. Williams
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The Times Literary Supplement
on
July 17, 2018
Why Trump Could Pardon Jack Johnson When Obama Wouldn’t
On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.
by
Eric Herschthal
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New York Review of Books
on
June 13, 2018
A Forgotten War on Women
Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.
by
Kim Kelly
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The New Republic
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May 22, 2018
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Roy Moore and the Revolution to Come
Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?
by
Kimberly A. Hamlin
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Made By History
on
November 19, 2017
The Invention of Monogamy
For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.
by
Sarah Mirk
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Isabella Rotman
via
The Nib
on
October 20, 2017
Tracing the Elusive History of Pier 1's Ubiquitous 'Papasan' Chair
The bowl-shaped seat's conflicted heritage incorporates the Vietnam War.
by
John Kelly
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Atlas Obscura
on
July 17, 2017
Chuck Berry Invented the Idea of Rock and Roll
The origins of rock and roll are unknown, but no one can deny the role Chuck Berry played.
by
Bill Wyman
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Vulture
on
March 18, 2017
Born a Slave, Emma Ray Was The Saint of Seattle’s Slums
Emma Ray was a leader in battles against poverty, and for temperance.
by
Lorraine McConaghy
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Crosscut
on
February 26, 2016
Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck
The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
by
Lisa Hix
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Collectors Weekly
on
December 12, 2014
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