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Photograph of Mrs. Frank Leslie

‘Mrs. Frank Leslie’ Ran a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Suffragist Movement

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on March 28, 2022
Ernest Hemingway and his wife Mary Welsh.

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Close your eyes and imagine you’re married to Ernest Hemingway. Now, imagine it twice as bad, and you’ll be approaching the life story of Mary Welsh Hemingway.
by Anne Margaret Daniel via The Spectator on February 20, 2022
Vintage drawing of a Victorian-era drugstore

Was Edgar Allan Poe a Habitual Opium User?

While Poe was likely using opium, the efforts to keep him quiet suggest that he was also drinking.
by Elizabeth Kelly Gray via Commonplace on February 7, 2022
Four duplicate portrait photos of Judah P. Benjamin.

Biographical Fallacy

The life of Judah Benjamin, a Southern Jew who served in the Confederate government, can tell us only so much about the American Jewish encounter with slavery.
by Richard Kreitner via Jewish Currents on February 3, 2022
screenshot of primary source archive with "slut" in search browser and primacy source results listed below

Sluts and the Founders

Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.
by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on January 26, 2022
Scene from from 'The Gilded Age' in which a wealthy white woman and an African American woman walk in the street, with a stagecoach behind them.

The True History Behind HBO's 'The Gilded Age'

Julian Fellowes' new series dramatizes the late 19th-century clash between New York City's old and new monied elite.
by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Smithsonian on January 20, 2022
Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lead a column of demonstrators as they attempt to march on Birmingham, Ala., city hall April 12, 1963. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

King Was A Critical Race Theorist Before There Was a Name For It

When states ban antiracism history from schools, they're disavowing what King stood for.
by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw via Los Angeles Times on January 17, 2022
Billboard claiming MLK was a Republican

The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Politics have diluted King's dream.
by Andre E. Key via Religion Dispatches on January 13, 2022
Frame from the film Being the Ricardos, features Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz at a screen reading for the "I Love Lucy" show.

The True History Behind 'Being the Ricardos'

Aaron Sorkin's new film dramatizes three pivotal moments in the lives of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on December 13, 2021
The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children Program in action, New York, 1969. Photo by Bev Grant/Getty Images

The Black Panthers Fed More Hungry Kids Than the State of California

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.
by Suzanne Cope via Aeon on December 10, 2021
Falling apart neon sign for Lotus Chop Suey, a restaurant in Chicago

The Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey

Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish's true origins.
by Miranda Brown via Atlas Obscura on November 30, 2021
Statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse.

Reëxamining the Legacy of Race and Robert E. Lee

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.
by Allen C. Guelzo, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on November 24, 2021
tintype portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln

The Insanity Trial of Mary Lincoln

How the self-proclaimed "First Widow" used her celebrity to influence public opinion.
by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on November 23, 2021
Book cover: "The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy" featuring Joseph Kennedy and his family

Joseph Kennedy, American Fascist

With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.
by Carl Rollyson via The Russell Kirk Center on November 7, 2021
Two men watch a bank of televisions showing Colin Powell testifying before the UN

Invisible General: How Colin Powell Conned America

From My Lai to Desert Storm to WMDs.
by Noah Kulwin via The American Prospect on October 22, 2021
Elmwood Cemetery, where Henry Ellett, Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward are buried

A Deadly Introduction

Who was Henry Ellett? Looking at his grave you wouldn't know much about him.
by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on October 13, 2021
Man Ray looking through a frame.

Man Ray’s Slow Fade From the Limelight

Man Ray made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?
by Jeremy Lybarger via The New Republic on October 7, 2021
Richard Wright.

Outcasts and Desperados

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."
by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on October 4, 2021
Black and white photo of Fatty Arbuckle

Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?
by Michael Schulman via The New Yorker on September 30, 2021
MLK in a police station

Martin Luther King Knew That Fighting Racism Meant Fighting Police Brutality

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Atlantic on September 15, 2021
Twin Towers at sunset

How To Remember Minoru Yamasaki’s Twin Towers

Remembered as symbols of strength after 9/11, the Twin Towers and their Japanese American architect were once criticized in racist and sexist terms.
by Alexandra Lange via CityLab on September 8, 2021
Jacqueline Jones

Biography’s Occupational Hazards: Confronting Your Subject as Both Person and Persona

As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject’s life that left her baffled, even mystified.
by Jacqueline Jones via Perspectives on History on September 8, 2021
Illustration of Edgar Allen Poe looking out window at raven, painted by Eduard Manet

Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend

Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”
by Matthew Redmond via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 7, 2021
Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation Spent the Last Decade of Her Life Violently Destroying Bars. She Had Her Reasons. 

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Slate on September 7, 2021
Victorian women waving from ship

The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

The daring women whose transatlantic journeys challenged gender roles.
by Siân Evans via Literary Hub on August 12, 2021

Remembered for the Wrong Reason?

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?
by Jason Yonce, J. L. Bell, David Price, Matthew M. Montelione, Don Glickstein, Will Monk, David Head, Don N. Hagist, Derrick E. Lapp, Eric Sterner, William H. Manthorpe Jr., Conner Runyan, Gene Procknow, Greg Aaron, John DeLee, Robert S. Davis, Jane Hampton Cook, Gregory Safko, James Kirby Martin, Alex Colvin, William M. Welsch, Jim Piecuch, Stuart Hatfield via Journal of the American Revolution on August 11, 2021
President Obama in the Oval Office.

Pictures at a Restoration

On Pete Souza’s Obama.
by Blair McClendon via n+1 on August 10, 2021
Painting of attack on Fort Washington

Morale Manipulation As the Central Strategic Imperative in the American Revolutionary War

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.
by Woody Holton via Journal of the American Revolution on August 3, 2021
A church building situated amongst mountains.

Thoreau In Good Faith

A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.
by Caleb Smith via Public Books on July 19, 2021
Jim Jones and family

In the Image of Jonestown

In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.
by Jay Caspian Kang via The Nation on July 10, 2021
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