New perspectives on how history is made
The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.
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 reading list tracing the history of the birth control movement through novels.
A story of a marriage, and the evolution of the entire concept of medication.
How a local prosecutor protected white supremacists and went on to a career in Washington, DC.
On the lengths newspaper publishers took to reach new subscribers — and then drive them away — in the 1930s.
A reading from 1920 on the fights that follow the 19th Amendment: “Now at last we can begin.”
How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.
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.
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?
The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.
In which John B. Calhoun begins to study the lifestyles of rodents, and the public listens.
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut.
As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.
On Irving Howe and the New Left.
Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it.
How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written.
On civilians’ opinion of killing civilians by air during World War II.
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