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Daphne A. Brooks
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There are those who say that the lore of the modern rock and roll archive starts here, deep in the rustic outer…
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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After slavery ended, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825– 1911) became the superintendent of the Colored Sections of…
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This is an adapted excerpt from Tracy Clark-Flory’s Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, a…
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Clover Hope
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Instagram launched a simple yet radical feature in June 2013: the ability to upload videos in addition to photos.…
Jan 25
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Janice P. Nimura
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On September 12, 1851, a small item appeared in the New-York Daily Tribune, the city’s largest and most progressive…
Jan 8
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Koa Beck
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In recent years, it’s been popular for mainstream celebrity profiles to crown individual celebrities as…
Dec 15
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Leslie Brody
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It was Charlotte Zolotow, then a forty-eight-year-old senior editor in the Harper Books for Boys and Girls division,…
Nov 13
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Virginia Postrel
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A spindle whorl doesn’t look like much. It’s a small cone, disk, or sphere made of a hard material such as stone,…
Oct 29
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Ruth Goodman
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Many European nations pride themselves upon the quality and variety of their sweet baked foods. The Viennese have a…
Oct 15
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Francesca Beauman
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Marriage ads reached their apogee in mid–19th century New York. Prominent champions of the genre included the New…
Oct 6
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David Michaelis
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Covering the Gov. Alfred E. Smith presidential campaign in 1928, Lorena Hickok could not have imagined risking…
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Meg Muckenhoupt
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With the approach of Labor Day, chain stores across America fill with decor and foods that evoke a “traditional,”…
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Seyward Darby
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As viral content goes, the photograph was a blockbuster, accumulating more than ten million likes and three hundred…
Apr 29
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Nina Renata Aron
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Below is an excerpt from Nina Renata Aron’s Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, a memoir about addiction, love,…
Oct 28 2019
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Below is an excerpt from The Queens of Animation. In the book, Nathalia Holt traces the careers of the women who…
Oct 15 2019
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From GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU HATE by Rebecca Fishbein, published by William Morrow. Copyright © 2019…
Sep 30 2019
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Jenny Brown
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The first shot in the feminist abortion wars was fired in 1969 in a New York City Health Department auditorium,…
Apr 5 2019
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In my forthcoming book Republic of Lies, I spent a lot of time thinking about the primacy of conspiracy theories in…
Feb 20 2019
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Saidiya Hartman
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Reprinted from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman. Copyright © 2019 by Saidiya Hartman. Used…
Feb 12 2019
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Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison first delivered “Women, Race, and Memory” at Queens College, Queens, New York, May 8, 1989. The Source…