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Bowling For Suburbia

By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the "poor man's country club."
by Kate Reggev via Contingent on May 8, 2020

How Training Bras Constructed American Girlhood

In the twentieth century, advertisements for a new type of garment for preteen girls sought to define the femininity they sold.
by Christine Ro via JSTOR Daily on March 18, 2020

Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.
by Dave Zirin via The Nation on February 24, 2020

When Memphis Fell for a Pyramid Scheme

The Great American Pyramid was supposed to give the Tennessee city an architectural landmark for the ages. Instead, it got a very large sporting goods store.
by Martha Park via CityLab on January 29, 2020
Horses with ribbons and a man counting his gambling winnings.

History’s Greatest Horse Racing Cheat and His Incredible Painting Trick

In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.
by Josh Nathan-Kazis via Narratively on June 6, 2019
Three Black men in a field wearing Baltimore Black Sox uniforms.

Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball

Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.
by Louis Moore via Black Perspectives on May 9, 2019
Newspaper clipping featuring giant championship bat being presented to the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Turned Baseball into a National Sensation

Meet the team that transformed baseball from a pastime to an industry.
by Robert Wyss via The Conversation on March 27, 2019

How Jackie Robinson’s Wife, Rachel, Helped Him Break Baseball’s Color Line

At some point, Jackie began to refer to himself not as “I” but as “we.”
by Chris Lamb via The Conversation on January 30, 2019
Marques Colston of the New Orlean Saints during a game, Asim Bharwani, Flickr

The NFL and a History of Black Protest

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.
by Louis Moore via Black Perspectives on September 12, 2018

In Search of Arborglyphs

A look into Basque tree carvings in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
by Tim Hauserman via The Tahoe Weekly on June 13, 2018

Selling American Vigor

The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.
by Rachel Louise Moran via Process: A Blog for American History on February 13, 2018
African American medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their fists raised during the national anthem at the 1968 Olympics.

Reparation as Fantasy

Remembering the black-fisted silent protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.
by Jamal Ratchford via Process: A Blog for American History on October 15, 2017

The NFL Has Officially Whitewashed Colin Kaepernick’s Protest

The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country.
by Louis Moore via Vox on September 28, 2017

Ibram Kendi, One of the Nation’s Leading Scholars of Racism, Says Education and Love Are Not the Answer

A profile of the founder of American University's new anti-racism center.
by Lonnae O'Neal via Andscape on September 20, 2017
A 1902 football game mid-play, with men from both sides rushing at each other

God and the Gridiron Game

America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.
by Paul Putz, Hunter Hampton via Christianity Today on September 6, 2017
Roy Takeno, editor, and group reading paper in front of office, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Behind Barbed Wire

Japanese-American internment camp newspapers.
by Chris Ehrman, Heather Thomas via Library of Congress on August 31, 2017

What Does Trump's Golfing Reveal about His Personality?

Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf since becoming president. Can his habit be explained by his "sky-high extroversion?"
by Jessica Brown via JSTOR Daily on August 2, 2017

The Umpire Strikes Out: Baseball Music and Labor

The classic baseball hit "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" has a lot more to do with U.S. history than one might think.
by Wendi Maloney via Library of Congress on July 31, 2017

Celebrating the Life and Activism of Jackie Robinson

Those who honor Jackie Robinson must remember his importance outside the baseball diamond.
by Matthew Teutsch via Black Perspectives on May 9, 2017
Sports bettors watching a horse race.

Oil in the Can

A history of horse racing, it's slang, and handicapping.
by Eric Banks via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 1, 2016
Two paintings of sports: Jean Jacoby's Corner, left, and Rugby. At the 1928 Olympic Art Competitions in Amsterdam, Jacoby won a gold medal for Rugby.

When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Art

In the modern Olympics’ early days, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bronze.
by Joseph Stromberg via Smithsonian on July 25, 2012
Mack Robinson.
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Black Champions: Interview with Mack Robinson

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on May 21, 1985
Jim Brown.
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Black Champions: Interview with Jim Brown

On inclusion of African American athletes in college sports.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 19, 1985
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Black Champions: Interview with Curt Flood

On traveling through the Jim Crow south as the sole Black athlete on a baseball team.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 16, 1984

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