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  1. history
    Jay-Z Is Bringing Emmett Till’s Story to ABC, From the Perspective of His MotherIt’s part of a new anthology series about women of the civil-rights movement.
    By Devon Ivie
  2. who’s who
    Who’s Who in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A GuideYour handy Hollywood Hills map to the real-life stars in Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film.
    By Rebecca Alter
  3. the bqe
    The Brooklyn Heights Promenade Was a Robert Moses Head FakeThe story goes that he wanted the BQE rammed through the Heights and settled for the Promenade. It’s not true.
    By Thomas J. Campanella
  4. twitter
    Brand Twitter Grows UpHow corporate social media (mostly) moved past its awkward phase and connected with audiences.
    By Nathan Allebach
  5. cringe
    Naomi Wolf’s Nightmare Continues ApaceHer publisher pushed back the release date after “new questions” arose about the contentious book.
    By Claire Lampen
  6. tv
    Please Stop Taking Selfies at Chernobyl, Requests Series CreatorIs that really so hard?
    By Hannah Gold
  7. books
    A Walking Tour, Circa 1860, With the City’s Last PirateRich Cohen takes us through Albert Hicks’s New York, complete with a sack of stolen money and a trip to the gallows.
    By Rich Cohen
  8. whoops
    Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is WrongSomewhere in the pantheon of anxiety dreams near “showing up to work naked” is “learning on-air that your book is totally wrong.”
    By Yelena Dzhanova
  9. whoops
    Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is WrongSomewhere in the pantheon of anxiety dreams near “showing up to work naked” is “learning on-air that your book is totally wrong.”
    By Yelena Dzhanova
  10. john singleton
    Why America Needs More Movies Like John Singleton’s RosewoodThe director’s 1997 film is one of the few to explore black experiences with racist terrorism between the Civil War and the civil-rights movement.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  11. tribes
    The (Almost) Lost Gay History of BrooklynFrom Hart Crane cruising at the St. George to male beauty contests on Coney Island.
    By Edward Hart
  12. hot presidents
    What’s Going on With This Sexy Shirtless Lincoln Statue?It lives outside of a courthouse in L.A., and is official government property.
    By Opheli Garcia Lawler
  13. politics
    Why Has It Taken Us So Long to See Trump’s Weakness?There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.
    By Corey Robin
  14. nuns
    Medieval Nun Faked Her Own Death to Pursue ‘Carnal Lust’Joan of Leeds pulled off the elaborate scheme described as “cunning” and “nefarious” by an archbishop.
    By Opheli Garcia Lawler
  15. inequality
    The Rich Haven’t Become Too Immoral. They’ve Become Too Rich.Moral decline didn’t make capitalism more predatory. Policies that weakened unions and enriched capitalists did.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. podcasts
    No Man’s Land Explores the Forgotten Stories of Women’s HistoryHost Alexis Coe wants to help listeners understand “how historians actually work.”
    By Nicholas Quah
  17. talking to
    What Can The Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots Teach Us About Sex?In pre-modern times, same-sex intimacy was an accepted part of the culture.
    By Anna Silman
  18. mary queen of scots
    How Historically Accurate Are the Wokest Parts of Mary Queen of Scots?Was David Rizzio really Mary’s gay best friend?
    By Nate Jones
  19. history
    Did Mary, Queen of Scots Really Wear All of Those Earrings?Investigating a costume-drama mystery.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  20. the favourite
    Everything You Need to Know About the 18th-Century World of The FavouriteExplaining Sarah Churchill vs. Abigail Masham, Whigs vs. Tories, and England vs. France.
    By Nate Jones
  21. past is prologue
    1982’s Democratic Wins Were Similar to 2018’s. Then Came Reagan’s Landslide.After a battle to rein in the “Reagan Revolution,” the Democratic Party made House gains in the midterms. Today’s Democrats won’t like what came next.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. book excerpt
    Was Architect Philip Johnson a Nazi Spy?A decade before he grew famous for his Glass House, he was enthusiastically at home in the Third Reich.
    By Mark Lamster
  23. suspiria
    A German History Primer for the Confused Suspiria ViewerFrom the lingering remnants of the Nazi era to the Red Army Faction and the “German Autumn.”
    By Nate Jones
  24. q&a
    Why Our History Is More Urgent Than EverJill Lepore, author of These Truths, on writing about American civics in the age of Trump and understanding our historical responsibilities.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  25. documented
    The Photographer Who Documents the Former Sites of Confederate MonumentsArtist Matthew Shain set out to capture the pedestals where they once stood.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. discoveries
    Archaeologists Discover World’s Stalest Piece of BreadTalk about ancient grains.
    By Nikita Richardson
  27. billboart charts
    Drake Just Broke a Historic Record Set by the BeatlesLet’s break down the history he just made.
    By Dee Lockett
  28. power
    Stacey Abrams’s Win Is Just the BeginningHer victory is a lesson in how to break the rules of politics.
    By Brittany Packnett
  29. history
    Africatown and the 21st-Century Stain of SlaveryThe descendants of Cudjo Lewis, the final survivor of the last slave ship to land in America, fight for respect and environmental justice.
    By Nick Tabor
  30. look book
    The Historian Who Loves Architecture“I’m kind of an architecture nerd and carry around the 1978 AIA Guide to New York architecture.”
    By Alexis Swerdloff
  31. television
    History Is No Longer Making Its Bill Clinton Impeachment SeriesThe news came shortly after Ryan Murphy confirmed he is also shelving his Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky American Crime Story season.
    By Tolly Wright
  32. DI Politics Chat: What Do We Forget About MLK?Four Daily Intelligencer staffers discuss the mission and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and what gets left out of the public memory of him.
    By Jonathan Chait, Ed Kilgore, and Margaret Hartmann
  33. landmark court cases
    Linda Brown of Brown v. Board of Education Has Died“Sixty-four years ago, a young girl from Topeka brought a case that ended segregation in public schools in America.”
    By Amanda Arnold
  34. Odysseus Reviews the New Translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ by Michael Maiello “Tell me about a complicated man,” begins Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, which is the story of me, Odysseus. I read this […]
    By Brian Boone
  35. gallery
    The 16-Year-Old Algerian Artist Who Influenced Picasso and MatisseBaya was discovered at age 16.
    By Jane Drinkard
  36. mysteries
    New Clues About the Fate of Amelia EarhartA new study suggests the bones found on the island of Nikumaroro in 1940 belong to the famous aviator.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  37. stoneman shooting
    Who Was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?She fought for women’s right to vote and the conservation of the Everglades.
    By Amanda Arnold
  38. foreign affairs
    Poland’s Holocaust Law and the Right-Wing Desire to Rewrite HistoryNew restrictions on speech reflect right-wing nationalists’ obsession with whitewashing the crimes of the past.
    By Jonah Shepp
  39. New York Politics Chat: Is Trump the Worst President of All Time?Five members of New York’s politics team try to figure what Trump has to do to take the (figurative) crown.
    By Jonathan Chait, Olivia Nuzzi, and Ezekiel Kweku
  40. progress
    Wineglasses Are 7 Times the Size They Used to BeFinally, some good news.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  41. vulture lists
    The 7 Historical Events That Might Happen in The Crown Season TwoLet’s look at actual history to try and predict the story lines of The Crown’s second season.
    By Nate Jones
  42. history
    Classified JFK Files Will Be Released Next Week As Required by LawA small number of documents may still be omitted or redacted, however.
    By Chas Danner
  43. The Vietnam War Is a Staggering Achievement in Documentary StorytellingThe 18-hour nonfiction epic is a thorough, engrossing dive into history.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  44. select all
    Happy Egg-Shirt DayToday’s the day.
    By Brian Feldman
  45. A Brief History of North Korea in 3 Minutes▶️ A condensed history of the troubled nation, from the Japanese annexation in 1910 to present day.
    By Granger Willson
  46. The Search for Madame Liu-TsongIn 1951, Anna May Wong was TV’s first Asian-American leading actor. And then her groundbreaking show disappeared.
    By Nicole Chung
  47. 5 Obscure Historical References You Might Have Missed in Game of Thrones▶️ Yes, there really was a real-life Red Wedding.
    By Granger Willson
  48. charlottesville
    Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Claiming ‘No Difference’ Between Lee and Washington“Both saved America.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  49. select all
    Charles Thacker, Designer of First Modern PC, Passes AwayThacker designed the Xerox Alto in 1973, which led directly to the Mac and Windows.
    By Jake Swearingen
  50. history
    Were You Aware the Bad Guy in Wonder Woman Was a Real Person?Erich Ludendorff was the second-highest-ranking German general in the closing days of World War I.
    By Nate Jones
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