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How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza

How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza

Edna Bonhomme on the Public and Private Battles Waged Across Europe and the United States During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

By Edna Bonhomme | March 24, 2025

A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.

A new study traces the history of Black American literary groups.

By Brittany Allen | March 21, 2025

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Clay Risen on the Geopolitical Shifts and Internal Political Climate That Led to the Red Scare

By Clay Risen | March 21, 2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

Stuart Nadler: “The work is everything, and the work is heartbreaking.”

By Stuart Nadler | March 19, 2025

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

Noliwe Rooks on the Ongoing Battle to Desegregate Schools Across America Throughout the 1960s

By Noliwe Rooks | March 19, 2025

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

For Historian Russell Shorto, It Was All About Water

By Russell Shorto | March 18, 2025

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Oliver Smith Considers Soccer as Sport and Religion in the United Kingdom

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Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

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How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

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Scott Spillman on the Scholarship and Intellectual Legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and Other Academics

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