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Maya Angelou among the first ever American women to appear on the US quarter.

Maya Angelou among the first ever American women to appear on the US quarter.

By Jonny Diamond | May 10, 2021

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

Ken Ellingwood on the Social and Political Function of Print Media

By kenellingwood | May 6, 2021

Judgement Day at America’s First Blockbuster Murder Trial

Judgement Day at America’s First Blockbuster Murder Trial

an Indigenous Man">Tobey Pearl on the Trial of the Plymouth Colonists Who Murdered
an Indigenous Man

By Tobey Pearl | March 16, 2021

To Unify a Divided (New) Nation: The Early Days of George Washington's Presidency

To Unify a Divided (New) Nation: The Early Days of George Washington's Presidency

David O. Stewart on the Construction of the Highest Office

By David O. Stewart | February 11, 2021

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

"The Little Rock crisis energized American Black people who watched the drama unfold on television."

By Horace Julian Bond | January 15, 2021

An Illustrator Brings Realism into Octavia Butler's Speculative Fiction

An Illustrator Brings Realism into Octavia Butler's Speculative Fiction

Kindred">In Conversation with James E. Ransome on the New Edition of Kindred

By Aaron Robertson | August 27, 2020

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The Unpopular Tale of Populism: Thomas Frank on the Real History of an American Mass Movement

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 30, 2020

to an End">America Wasn't a Nation At Its Founding, It Was a Means
to an End

By Colin Woodard | June 24, 2020

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

By Serena Zabin | February 20, 2020

Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii's Painful History

Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii's Painful History

New Books Network">In Conversation with C. P. Lesley on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | January 17, 2020

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

must partake of blackness.”">“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

By John F. Callahan | January 16, 2020

Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

Imperfect Union Answers a Few Questions from Lit Hub">The Author of Imperfect Union Answers a Few Questions from Lit Hub

By Literary Hub | January 14, 2020

Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

J. M. Fenster Tries to Understand the Motivations of Rule-Breakers

By J. M. Fenster | December 4, 2019

How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

"Proper and upright did not mean passive and docile."

By J.D. Dickey | November 22, 2019

of Enslaved Americans"> Piecing Together the Lives<br

Piecing Together the Lives<br

of Enslaved Americans">

of Enslaved Americans">Piecing Together the Lives
of Enslaved Americans

Rachel May Traces the Warp and Weft of History Through Fabric

By Rachel May | November 21, 2019

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

By Troy Rondinone | October 31, 2019

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