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Illustration of a figure sitting and playing a guitar, in front of an image of a cross

Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution

Describing the experiences of radicals who lived in, traveled to, or found themselves in Mexico between 1910 and 1920.
by Christina Heatherton via Boom California on October 12, 2022
Patsy Min, the first woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress.

My Mom Fought For Title IX, but It Almost Didn’t Happen

When the personal and professional lives of Hawai'i Congresswoman Patsy Mink collided.
via New York Times Op-Docs on June 23, 2022
Photo of an elderly Jane Stanford, dressed in lace and beads.

The Robber Baroness of Northern California

Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.
by Maia Silber via The New Yorker on May 30, 2022
Cover for a book of scrip for use at American Potash and Chemical’s company stores, 1937.

Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

Alternative currencies flourish in desperate times and situations.
by Michael Meyer via Distillations on May 3, 2022
Phonograph records of Japanese music and a Japanese character dictionary.

Japanese on Dakota Land

Japanese Americans enter the frame of everyday Midwestern lives.
by Patti Kameya via Patti Kameya on February 14, 2022
Botanical drawing of a bunch of grapes.

Fruits of Empire

The plant explorers of the USDA succeeded in bringing the world’s fruits to American supermarkets. But at what human, ecological, and gustatory cost?
by Willa Glickman via New York Review of Books on November 12, 2021
Miss America 1992, Carolyn Sapp of Hawaii, is crowned by former Miss America Marjorie Judith Vincent on Sept. 14, 1991.

How a Domestic Violence Exposé Ushered In a New Era for the Miss America Pageant

If the press didn’t know what to make of Miss America 1992 Carolyn Sapp, they really didn’t know what to make of domestic violence.
by Amy Argetsinger via TIME on September 9, 2021
Photo of California gold fragment found by John Sutter in 1848

A Pacific Gold Rush

On the roads and seas miners traveled to reach gold in the United States and Australia.
by Mae Ngai via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 25, 2021
Mounted police clashing with strikers, one carrying an American flag, outside an electrical plant in Philadelphia, 1946

Cops at War: How World War II Transformed U.S. Policing

As wartime labor shortages depleted police forces, and fear of crime grew, chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their officers.
by Stuart Schrader via Modern American History on June 28, 2021
Julie and Hillary Goodridge talking to reporters

Why the Marriage-Equality Movement Succeeded

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.
by Isaac Chotiner, Sasha Issenberg via The New Yorker on June 10, 2021
Silhouette with pieces of constitutions and other prints inside

When Constitutions Took Over the World

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 22, 2021
Illustration of two ships traveling along a coast.

Around the World in Eight Years

On Juanita Harrison’s "My Great, Wide, Beautiful World."
by Cathryn Halverson via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 30, 2020

The Pirate Map That Launched My Career

Oceanographer Dawn Wright on how "Treasure Island" led her to map the bottom of the sea.
by Dawn Wright via CityLab on November 15, 2019
1890 painting of Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.
by Daniel Immerwahr via Literary Hub on February 20, 2019

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019
Woman playing a guitar, and the cover of the book 'Country Music USA.'

‘Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure’

On the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.
by Bill C. Malone, Will Hermes, Tracey Laird via Longreads on August 1, 2018

A New Golden Age for the Tiki Bar

Half a century after the tropical craze of the 1960s, the modern age of escapism is taking cues from the past.
by Kara Newman via The Atlantic on June 5, 2018
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation on January 31, 2018
Prince Wichaichan, also known as Prince George Washington

George Washington at the Siamese Court

Ross Bullen explores the curious case of Prince George Washington, a 19th-century Siamese prince.
by Ross Bullen via The Public Domain Review on April 21, 2016

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