Current Events that Relate to History
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Forum
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws
As the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to revive the Comstock Act, this seven-part forum explores the Act’s influence on American life.SHGAPE Blog -
Comment
Popular History
What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?The Point -
Exhibit
Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond
A new digital project shows how those who escaped slavery were important actors in the challenge not just to their own enslavement but to slavery more broadly.Commonplace -
Profile
The Story of Sakinah Ahad Shannon, an Early Hero of Abortion Liberation
Sakinah discovered Chicago’s Abortion Counseling Service, better known as Jane, because she wanted to help a friend. Then she became an essential part of it.The Nation -
Book Excerpt
Pilsner Goes to America: How Beer Got Big in the 19th Century
On the transatlantic development of pilsners and lagers from Central Europe to the Americas.Literary Hub -
Digital History
Batting by the Numbers
The evolution of baseball’s perfect lineup.The Pudding -
exhibit
Photographic Record
From photojournalism to portraiture, the exhibit explores what photos have meant to their creators, subjects, and viewers.
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut. -
Regency Sex Ed
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?