19th century 
-
6/14/2020
Hungarian-American Relations in 1849 and Today: Why We Need Another Lajos Kossuth
by Tim Roberts
A Hungarian nationalist visited the United States in 1849 to plead the case for an independent, democratic state, inspiring the cause of abolition in America. Today Hungarian-American relations are running in the direction of authoritarianism.
-
5/10/2020
Spiritualism and Suspension Bridges: John Roebling and a Biographer's Sympathy for the Weird 19th Century
by Richard Haw
A biographer of Brooklyn Bridge designer John Roebling expected to write about a genius. He also ended up writing about a complete weirdo, and how one man could be both.
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
4/19/2020
Covid-19 is Forcing Us to Dwell in Uncertainty. History Can Help.
by Sari Altschuler
Writings on long-ago cholera outbreaks contain lessons in navigating unknowns.
-
4/12/2020
The Other Booths
by David O. Stewart
The notoriety of the Lincoln assassination has obscured the other Booths in history, but some were as well known as John Wilkes--or even better, at least until he pulled the trigger in the president’s box at Ford’s Theater, 155 years ago this week.
-
SOURCE: Nursing Clio
3/26/2020
The Lone Woman of Kokura
by Nyri A. Bakkalian
Who was the Lone Woman in the Kokura Castle town ruins that day in 1866? We don’t know her name, though we know where she died in Kokura.
-
SOURCE: The New York Times
1/22/20
The Myth of Middle-Class Liberalism
by David Motadel
The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies. In fact, they rarely have.
-
SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine Online
11/26/19
A Brief History of the Crock-Pot
Eighty years after it was patented, the Crock-Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens.
-
SOURCE: Telegraph
1/15/19
Women used to grow whiskers for bizarre 19th century trend, historian discovers
Whiskers were so popular in the 19th century that even women wanted to grow sideburns.
News
- How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic
- A New Film Details the FBI’s Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Belfast's Troubles Echo in Today's Washington
- The ‘Whitewashing’ of Black Wall Street
- Trump’s 1776 Commission Critiques Liberalism in Report Derided by Historians
- As Trump’s Presidency Recedes into History, Scholars Seek to Understand His Reign — And What it Says about American Democracy
- The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. Reverberate in a Tumultuous Time
- These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points
- How Heather Cox Richardson Built a Sisterhood of Concerned Americans
- Will Trump’s Mishandling of Records Leave a Hole in History?