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Biography
Mercy Otis Warren, America’s First Female Historian
At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.The Saturday Evening Post -
Book Review
How Unions Are Made
A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us the story of the United Farm Workers and how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.The Nation -
Book Review
Spreading the Bad News
Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?Democracy Journal -
Map
This New York City Map Is Full of Dutch Secrets
When Broadway was a broad way and Wall Street was a wall.Atlas Obscura -
Book Review
When New York Made Baseball and Baseball Made New York
The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting produced a pastime that bound a city together.The New Yorker -
Q&A
Tenuous Privileges, Tenuous Power
Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.Public Books -
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Crimes of War
Stories about the civilian victims of past wars, and the extent to which Americans have acknowledged and accounted for atrocities committed in their name.