New perspectives on how history is made
Finding testimony from the Afro-Caribbean workers who changed the Americas forever.
Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.
When the 1930 Hays Code banned pregnancy in film, birds took over the business of birth.
Why rock overtook every other genre to define our understanding of America at war.
Using film and advertising to sell capitalism and nationalism to immigrants in the early 20th century.
On the rise of the narcotic farm model, a radical reimagining of the nation’s approach to addiction.
A story of a marriage, and the evolution of the entire concept of medication.
A reading from 1920 on the fights that follow the 19th Amendment: “Now at last we can begin.”
On the lengths newspaper publishers took to reach new subscribers — and then drive them away — in the 1930s.
At the turn of the century in upstate New York, one tiny town learned there was money to make in the jailing of Chinese migrants.
A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.
In which John B. Calhoun begins to study the lifestyles of rodents, and the public listens.
On Irving Howe and the New Left.
On civilians’ opinion of killing civilians by air during World War II.
Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.
When the British government opened its archives to historians — and started relying less on the past for its own business.
On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.
In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.
How a tragedy in New York City convinced Americans to learn how to swim.
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