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History

Nature, Wild Girls, and Putting History in a New Environmental Perspective

In her latest book, historian Tiya Miles explores how some marginalized but eminent American women were shaped by the call of the wild

December 4, 2023 • by Brianna Corley

In her latest book, Wild Girls, Harvard historian Tiya Miles is particularly concerned with how the relationship with nature established by several nineteenth-century women—some prominent, some not—helped them flourish outside of conventional gender roles. ...

Nature, Wild Girls, and Putting History in a New Environmental Perspective

Podcast

Heather Cox Richardson Believes in You

A conversation about Richardson’s book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Substack, and the importance of popular history

November 29, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A Why Now? episode on Heather Cox Richardson's book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America...

Economy

Home Ownership and the History of Mortgages

Episode 402

November 28, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this episode of Past Present, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss Americans’ attachment to the thirty-year mortgage...

Home Ownership and the History of Mortgages

Past Present

The History of Drive-Thru Dining

Episode 401

November 21, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In Episode 401 of Past Present, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the history of drive-thru dining. ...

Media

Being Online

“The world must be made interesting, an object of curiosity, to answer the economic demand of the media”

November 21, 2023 • by Noam Yuran

The mobile phone has changed what it means to be a person. It has taken away our ability to bear intense emotions. It has infringed our sense of autonomy and diminished our ability to be alone....

Politics

Diaries of War

Voices of witness from Ukraine and Russia

November 20, 2023 • by Nora Krug

As the events of this war unfolded, I reached out to K., a Russia-born Ukrainian journalist in Kyiv, and D., an artist from St. Petersburg. I asked K. and D. if I could interview them to create a visual, weekly diary that would juxtapose their contrasting voices, and that would ...

Podcast

Oswald’s Mother

Episode 40: A conversation with journalist Deanne Stillman about her new book, American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother

November 15, 2023 • by Claire Potter

In Episode 40 of Why Now?, Claire Potter chats with journalist Deanne Stillman about her new book, American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother....

Past Present

The History of U.S. Divorce Laws

Episode 400: Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the history of divorce law in the United States

November 14, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In Episode 400, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the history of divorce law in the United States....

Podcast

Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote

Episode 39: A conversation with historian Jennifer Frost

November 6, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Jennifer Frost about her book Let Us Vote! Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment...

History

Can You Smile and Say “Land of the Free”?

An excerpt from American Confidential

November 6, 2023 • by Deanne Stillman

Can you smile and say ‘Land of the free’? Of course you can. There . . . that looks perfect. Did you know that this is where the West begins?” And then she would drive off and her mood instantly soured and she would wonder why her son Lee hardly ever ...

Literature

First He Parks the Golem In Front of a Television

A conversation with Adam Mansbach about his latest novel, The Golem of Brooklyn

November 1, 2023 • by Adam Mansbach and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In a recent conversation at The New School, history professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela chatted with writer Adam Mansbach about his new novel, The Golem of Brooklyn (One World, 2023), in which ancient Jewish folklore meets contemporary Brooklyn....