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The Promise of Freedom
A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.
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Elias Rodriques
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The Nation
on
October 3, 2022
New England Ecstasies
The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
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February 16, 2022
Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?
by
Peter Wirzbicki
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David Moore
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Mere Orthodoxy
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February 9, 2022
Read More Puritan Poetry
Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.
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Ed Simon
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The Millions
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February 4, 2022
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering
The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.
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Marina Magloire
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The Nation
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January 12, 2022
He Was No Moses
While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.
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David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
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December 16, 2021
Conservatives Say Liberals Want West Side Story to Be “Woke Side Story”
The beloved musical’s creator struggled to find a place between left and center.
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Daniel Wortel-London
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Slate
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December 13, 2021
As Far From Heaven as Possible
How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.
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Ed Simon
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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October 4, 2021
How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception
Hell hath no fury like a man with a vaginal douche named after him.
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Amy Sohn
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Literary Hub
on
July 20, 2021
How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press
When the U.S. first encountered the “Aesthetic Apostle."
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Nicholas Frankel
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Literary Hub
on
July 19, 2021
How New York Was Named
For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.
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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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The New Yorker
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April 13, 2021
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.
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Gerald Horne
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The Nation
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February 24, 2021
What Are Magazines Good For?
The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.
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Nathan Heller
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The New Yorker
on
February 16, 2021
Rewinding Jimi Hendrix’s National Anthem
His blazing rendition at Woodstock still echoes throughout the years, reminding us of what is worth fighting for in the American experiment.
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Paul Grimstad
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The New Yorker
on
January 26, 2021
How ‘America the Beautiful’ was Born
The United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country.
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Jill Lepore
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National Geographic
on
November 3, 2020
Bringing It Back to Baldwin
Joel Rhone reviews Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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Joel Rhone
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The Drift
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October 21, 2020
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?
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Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
on
September 21, 2020
Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes, "poet laureate of Harlem," dreamed of an America that lived up to its ideals.
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Louis P. Masur
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The American Scholar
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September 8, 2020
Dylan, Unencumbered
"How long can it go on?"
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Katrina Forrester
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n+1
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August 3, 2020
Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected
Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?
by
George Blaustein
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European Journal Of American Studies
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June 30, 2020
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