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How 19th-Century Gun-Makers Helped Preserve the Union

How 19th-Century Gun-Makers Helped Preserve the Union

John Bainbridge, Jr. on the Weapons That Won the Civil War

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Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

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How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés

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How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

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The Myth of the Rapid Mobility of European Immigrants

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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the Data Illusion of the Rags-to-Riches Stories

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Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

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Clayton Wickham on the Imagined Histories of Danielle Dutton and Benjamin Labatut

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What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

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Michael Blanding on the (Extremely Compelling) Sir Thomas North Theory

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Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

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On Hitler’s Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?

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Helene Munson in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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