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History

History as End

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

Matthew Karp Harper's Jun 2021 25min Permalink

The Lingering of Loss

On motherhood, writing, and the death of a friend.

Jill Lepore New Yorker Jul 2019 Permalink

Arts History

The Confidence Economy

An interview with T.J. Jackson Lears, historian of the “charlatans and hucksters of the Gilded Age, the cagey, conniving street peddlers of what we’d rather think was a premodern world.”

B. R. Cohen Public Books May 2013 15min Permalink

Best Article History Tech Media

A Memory of Webs Past

The challenges facing the historians of the internet.

Ariel Bleicher IEEE Spectrum Mar 2011 15min Permalink