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Left: Longfellow in His Study, by Worth Brehm, c. 1912. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Right: Dante Meditating on “The Divine Comedy”, by Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1843.

As Far From Heaven as Possible

How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.
by Ed Simon via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 4, 2021
Plane with an eye in it and a bird's silhouette around.

Did Making the Rules of War Better Make the World Worse?

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.
by Dexter Filkins via The New Yorker on September 2, 2021
Photo of Union commanders.

The Anti-Lee

George Henry Thomas, southerner in blue.
by Kenly Stewart via Emerging Civil War on September 2, 2021
A cartoon by Thomas Nast, depicting Johnson as a king and the race riots that occurred at a Radical Republican convention in New Orleans.

‘The Failed Promise’ Review: The Mad King and the Lost Cause

Frederick Douglass and Republican legislators had high hopes for Andrew Johnson—but ended up impeaching him.
by Randall Fuller via The Wall Street Journal on August 20, 2021
Students at Colby College

Harvard–Riverside, Round Trip

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.
by Mitchell L. Stevens via Public Books on August 11, 2021

Ralph Waldo Emerson Would Really Hate Your Twitter Feed

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.
by Peter Wirzbicki via Psyche on August 9, 2021
Truman in car with dollar signs on eyes.

The Truman Show

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.
by Paul Campos via Intelligencer on July 24, 2021
A firefighting tanker drops retardant over the Grandview Fire
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Drought-Related Crises Are Afflicting Millions. Desert Dwellers Can Offer Advice.

If we accept that we live in a desert nation, we can glean insights about how to live with aridity.
by C. J. Alvarez, Patricia Nelson Limerick via Made By History on July 19, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court justices.
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A Major Supreme Court First Amendment Decision Could be at Risk

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.
by Samantha Barbas via Made By History on July 13, 2021
Map of Nova Scotia

Imagining Nova Scotia: The Limits of an Eighteenth-Century Imperial Fantasy

Colonial planners saw Nova Scotia as a blank space ripe for transformation.
by Alexandra L. Montgomery via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 12, 2021
Newspaper headline stating "Mrs. Sarah Corleto to become nurse"

How an Embalming License Freed Sarah Corleto from an Abusive Husband

She used her work to live an autonomous life in a time when women were often trapped by socially constructed gender roles and systematic oppression.
by Kami Fletcher via Rad Death Blog on July 1, 2021
A diagram of the phases of the Moon.

Man-Bat and Raven: Poe on the Moon

A new book recovers the reputation Poe had in his own lifetime of being a cross between a science writer, a poet, and a man of letters.
by Mike Jay via London Review of Books on June 24, 2021

What We Want from Richard Wright

A newly restored novel tests an old dynamic between readers and the author of “Native Son.”
by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on May 12, 2021

Decolonize Hipsters

The history of hipsters is a not-so-secret history of race in the Atlantic world.
by Grégory Pierrot via Guernica on April 20, 2021
Patchwork collage of Joe Biden

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?
by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on April 20, 2021
A road sign that says “Eisenhower Interstate System”

The Myth And The Truth About Interstate Highways

A revised history of the interstate highway system.
by Sarah Jo Peterson via The Metropole on April 19, 2021
Malcolm X

A Malcolm For Our Times

"The Dead are Arising" may be the best Malcolm X biography yet. But its author seems unsure of how to write about a religion outside the American mainstream.
by Joseph Stuart via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on April 13, 2021
H.P. Lovecraft.

The Shadow Over H.P. Lovecraft

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.
by Siddhartha Deb via The New Republic on March 19, 2021
Thaddeus Stevens

The Radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.
by Matthew E. Stanley via Jacobin on March 1, 2021
Picture of the Ingalls family from the TV Series, "Little House on the Prairie."

Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Big Woke Woods

A recent documentary reminds us of her family’s strength and our own weakness.
by Jonathon Van Maren via The American Conservative on February 26, 2021
Jose Altuve of the Houston Astros

What Counts, These Days, in Baseball?

As technologies of quantification and video capture grow more sophisticated, is baseball changing? Do those changes have moral implications?
by David Hinkin via Public Books on February 24, 2021
Drawing of a toppled statue head among grass, with a white bird

What Do We Do About John James Audubon?

The founding father of American birding soared on the wings of white privilege. How should the birding community grapple with this racist legacy?
by J. Drew Lanham via Audubon on February 23, 2021
Pension record

Black Families’ Unending Fight for Equality

Civil War pension records have a lot to tell us about the lives of U.S. Colored Troops.
by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. via Muster on February 16, 2021
Illustration of Thomas Morton of Merrymount being arrested by Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony

Pranksters and Puritans

Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.
by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on February 15, 2021
John C. Calhoun

American Heretic, American Burke

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.
by Allen C. Guelzo via The New Criterion on February 4, 2021
Donald and Melania Trump waving from airplane.

How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency

Donald Trump's four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a unique figure.
by Michael Dimock, John Gramlich via Pew Research Center on January 29, 2021
"The Wikipedia Story"

An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia

The definitive story of Wikipedia on its 20th anniversary.
by Tom Roston via OneZero on January 14, 2021
Alexander Hamilton on the ten dollar bill

What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
by Michael Busch, Christian Parenti via Boston Review on December 14, 2020
A statue of Christopher Columbus.

Middle Schoolers Take on Columbus

A lesson on contextualizing history.
by Alex Pinelli via Perspectives on History on October 8, 2020
Abraham Lincoln

Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020
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