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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

A locked public bathroom

Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go?

For decades, U.S. cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go.

by Elizabeth Yuko via CityLab on November 5, 2021

A Brief History of Seltzer Booms in America

For over 100 years, the bubbly beverage has gone in and out of vogue as a wellness tonic.

by Maya Kroth via Medium on August 12, 2019

How Midwestern Suffragists Used Anti-Immigrant Fervor to Help Gain the Vote

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.

by Sara Egge via Zócalo Public Square on September 17, 2018

The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff

Vendors hawked the swill as “Pure Country Milk.”

by Tyler Moss via Atlas Obscura on November 27, 2017

From Teddy Roosevelt to Trump: How Drug Companies Triggered an Opioid Crisis a Century Ago

Americans, warned President Teddy Roosevelt's newly appointed opium commissioner in 1908, 'have become the greatest drugs fiends in the world.'

by Nick Miroff via Retropolis on October 17, 2017

Susan B. Anthony, Pro-Life Heroine?

Behind a quiet house museum are anti-abortion activists with a mission: to claim America’s most famous historical feminist as their own.

by Ruth Graham via Slate on May 8, 2017

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness

We have always questioned the spiritual and physical effects of alcohol.

by Kristen D. Burton via The Appendix on December 3, 2014

Retail Therapy

What our mannequins say about us.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on December 6, 2013

Harriet Beecher Stowe imagining her characters.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Art of Persuasion

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on June 6, 2011

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