cultural history

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• 1/26/20
  

  Modeling Grief: the Death of Children in Historical Perspective

  by Maria E. Doerfler

  As students of the history of emotions have argued, even the deepest and most primal feelings require models for experiencing one's own suffering and for responding appropriately to others’. The relative lack of such models in contemporary American society contrasts sharply with other eras' approach to voicing bereavement.

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• SOURCE: DePaulia
  1/12/20
  

  Historians Thomas Krainz, Colleen Doody, Emily Romeo, Amy Tyson Featured in Article on 1920s

  "The decade’s glamor and glitz overpowers its racism, crime and economic troubles."

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• 1/12/20
  

  Can America Recapture Its Signature Exuberance?

  by Tracy Dahlby

  Walt Whitman understood transcendence of national mood is an uphill climb. Periods of division and strife sort new realities into a renovated sense of purpose. Yet periods of upheaval must necessarily lead to a refitting, not obliteration, of our common story or democracy is toast.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/7/20
  

  Academic researchers of Iranian history and more publish letter condemning Trump' threat to target Iranian sites

  Academic researchers of Iranian history, archaeology, art and culture, based in national museums and universities across the world, react in horror to the US president’s threat to target Iranian sites.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/30/19
  

  Why We Need Walt Whitman in 2020

  by Ed Simon

  With our democracy in crisis, the poet and prophet of the American ideal should be our guide.

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  12/19/19
  

  The Power of Chilean Women Denouncing Gendered and Sexual Violence Through Song

  by Margaret Power

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  12/18/19
  

  How 25 Christmas Traditions Got Their Start

  Learn why we decorate trees, swap cookies and hide pickles and elves, among other traditions.

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• Sacred Objects: Medieval History and Star Wars

  by Stephenie McGucken

  For European believers, relics allowed worshipers to encounter some aspect of an object of devotion—a holy person or place—when the object itself was physically unavailable or geographically inaccessible.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Digesting History: A Conversation with the Museum of Food and Drink’s Curatorial Director Catherine Piccoli

  by Chelsea Connolly

  Food historian Catherine Piccoli describes how this Brooklyn museum encourages its visitors to literally "digest" history.

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Problem with Ken Burns' Country Music

  by Peter LaChapelle

  What would a Country Music that deals with country music’s complicated and often problematic political history look like?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/1/2019
  

  Spinster, old maid or self-partnered – why words for single women have changed through time

  by Amy Froide

  Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted – and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/25/19
  

  It’s Easy to Dismiss Debutante Balls, But Their History Can Help Us Understand Women’s Lives

  by Kristen Richardson

  The debutante ritual flourished roughly from 1780 to 1914—beginning with the first debutante ball in London and ending with the outbreak of World War I. 

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• 11/17/19
  

  The History of Personal Hygiene: An Interview with Peter Ward

  by Aleisha Smith

  "The history of the unremarkable and the ordinary have an importance of their own, one that can easily surpass the history of greatness in any of its many forms."

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• 11/3/19
  

  The First World War through a camera lens: from the soldier’s snapshot to the memorial photograph

  by Caroline Scott

  While professional lenses had captured scenes from the Crimean and the American Civil War, this was the first time that large numbers of serving men took cameras into the frontlines and made a visual record of their own experiences. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/29/19
  

  Rabies’ horrifying symptoms inspired folktales of humans turned into werewolves, vampires and other monsters

  by Jessica Wang

  The author's new book, “Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920,” explores the hidden meanings behind the ways people talked about rabies.

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• 10/27/2019
  

  What the Most Influential Text on Cannibalism Can Teach Us About Studying History

  by Tim Seiter

  From the Man-Eating Myth’s saga, we learn that if we focus too heavily on a single perspective while ignoring others, dangerously flawed history is bound to be produced.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  10/10/19
  

  The Feminist History of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’

  by Anna Laymon

  The song was written as Jack Norworth’s ode to his girlfriend, the progressive and outspoken Trixie Friganza, a famous vaudeville actress and suffragist.  

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• 10/13/19
  

  Rethinking Polygamy: An Interview with Sarah M.S. Pearsall

  by Kyla Sommers

  "Polygamy controversies place us amid major events in early America because such clashes were about the organization and governance not just of house- holds but of societies, nations, and empires.”

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• 9/29/19
  

  What Abraham Lincoln Got Right About Addiction

  by Ed Simon

  This National Recovery Month, Ed Simon examines the history of addiction recovery movements. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/25/19
  

  Why fears over Generation Z are overblown

  by Miranda Sachs

  We keep comparing young Americans to baby boomers and Generation X, but those comparisons are deeply flawed.