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America’s Decline & Fall
The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
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Jim Sleeper
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Commonweal
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November 24, 2024
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Keep Her Body from Pain and Her Mind from Worry
A reading list tracing the history of the birth control movement through novels.
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Stephanie Gorton
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HNN
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November 19, 2024
Review of "America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life"
We see what we want to see from philosophers such as Locke not because he wrote for our time (or “all time”) but because we imagine he did.
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Raymond Haberski Jr.
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American Literary History
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November 15, 2024
The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost
From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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New Statesman
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November 7, 2024
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Reading About Reading
Read up on the history of books.
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Perhaps the Most Influential Single Propagandist for Fascism
On the lengths newspaper publishers took to reach new subscribers — and then drive them away — in the 1930s.
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Terry Kirby
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HNN
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November 4, 2024
Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Rouse reveals the hidden queer histories of suffragists like Alice Morgan Wright, who balanced activism with private, erased relationships.
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Wendy L. Rouse
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Gay And Lesbian Review
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September 20, 2024
Where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons
Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.
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Laura Jedeed
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Politico Magazine
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August 31, 2024
Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass
Douglass elaborated a political theory attuned to the differential character of law as it applied to slaves and other outlaws.
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Paul Crider
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Liberal Currents
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August 5, 2024
What Are You Going to Do With That?
The future of college in the asset economy.
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Erik Baker
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Harper’s
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July 23, 2024
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An Unlikely Soldier
On Nathanael Greene’s inauspicious start.
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Alan Pell Crawford
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HNN
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July 2, 2024
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
A pre-history of the sentence diagrams that were once commonplace in the American classroom.
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Hunter Dukes
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The Public Domain Review
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June 19, 2024
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Alt Text
A brief history of the textfile, and the production of conspiracy theories on the internet.
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Walter J. Scheirer
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HNN
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May 8, 2024
Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness
On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things.”
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Dorothy Berry
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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April 22, 2024
Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated
Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies.
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Noah Webster
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Liz Tracey
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JSTOR Daily
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April 19, 2024
What a Teacher's Letters Reveal About Robert Smalls, Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Secure Freedom
Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women.
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Jonathan W. White
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Smithsonian
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February 13, 2024
Page Against the Machine
Dan Sinykin’s history of corporate fiction.
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Mitch Therieau
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Bookforum
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February 6, 2024
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Best History Writing of 2023
We reviewed thousands of articles, essays, and blog posts last year. Here are some of our favorites.
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Tony Field
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Kathryn Ostrofsky
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February 6, 2024
During the 2023 Writers Strike, This Book Helped Me Understand the Depravities of Hollywood
A 1941 novel by a former Communist Party member about the dog-eat-dog scumbaggery of movie executives and the lying and artless bragging that Hollywood runs on.
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Alex N. Press
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Jacobin
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December 8, 2023
After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee Couldn't Run for President, but Trump Can?
Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.
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Garrett Epps
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Washington Monthly
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November 20, 2023
Language Machinery: Who Will Attend to the Machine's Writing?
The ultimate semantic receivers, selectors, and transmitters are still us.
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Richard Hughes Gibson
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The Hedgehog Review
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November 7, 2023
The Latin School Teacher Who Made Classics Popular
A new biography of Edith Hamilton tells the story of how and why ancient literature became widely read in the United States.
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Emily Wilson
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The Nation
on
October 17, 2023
How Librarians Became American Free Speech Heroes
In the past and present, librarians have fought book bans and censorship.
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Madison Ingram
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Zócalo Public Square
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October 5, 2023
The South’s Jewish Proust
Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.
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Blake Smith
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Tablet
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September 6, 2023
Slanting the History of Handwriting
Whatever writing is today, it is not self-evident. But writing by hand did not simply continue to “advance” until it inevitably began to erode.
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Sonja Drimmer
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Public Books
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August 9, 2023
Who Is History For?
What happens when radical historians write for the public.
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David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
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July 25, 2023
Howard Zinn and the Politics of Popular History
The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.
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Nick Witham
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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July 17, 2023
How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America
And the origins of the term “Kafkaesque.”
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Brian K. Goodman
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Literary Hub
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July 5, 2023
Who Really Wrote ‘the Pursuit of Happiness’?
The voice of Doctor Johnson, archcritic of the American Revolution, was constantly in mind for the Declaration of Independence’s drafter.
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Peter Moore
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The Atlantic
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July 4, 2023
The Localist
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
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Jonathan Levy
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Boston Review
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June 28, 2023
The Comic Strip That Explains the Evolution of American Parenting
What eight decades of "Goofus and Gallant" illustrate about society’s changing expectations of children.
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Julie Beck
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The Atlantic
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June 28, 2023
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