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Read an excerpt from “Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth” by Pamela Walker Laird. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.hnn.us/article/self...
The Men Who Made America’s Self-Made Man
A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Read an excerpt from “Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth” by Pamela Walker Laird. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.hnn.us/article/self...
Read an excerpt from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
Complicit in the Business of Indoctrination and Incarceration
By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Read an excerpt from
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
@amyefarrell.bsky.social’s “Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA.” @uncpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/intr...
🗃️ Read Toby Jaffe on how the 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.” www.hnn.us/article/hist...
History According to Robert Bork
How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”
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November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🗃️ Read Toby Jaffe on how the 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.” www.hnn.us/article/hist...
“I realized that by choosing to read Slouching Towards Gomorrah, I had in fact stumbled onto something of a key for unlocking the logic of the contemporary Trumpian moment.” www.hnn.us/article/hist...
History According to Robert Bork
How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”
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November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“I realized that by choosing to read Slouching Towards Gomorrah, I had in fact stumbled onto something of a key for unlocking the logic of the contemporary Trumpian moment.” www.hnn.us/article/hist...
“I recalled that a family member had years prior gotten a hold of Robert Bork’s 1996 book Slouching Towards Gomorrah from one of those little free library kiosks people keep on their lawns.” www.hnn.us/article/hist...
History According to Robert Bork
How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”
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November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“I recalled that a family member had years prior gotten a hold of Robert Bork’s 1996 book Slouching Towards Gomorrah from one of those little free library kiosks people keep on their lawns.” www.hnn.us/article/hist...
“Anti-immigrant groups such as the Asiatic Exclusion League were swelling in number, and communities up and down the West Coast turned on Indian workers, ransacking their homes and attacking them in the street in an effort to drive them from the country.” www.hnn.us/article/slam...
Slamming America’s Door Behind Him
How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Anti-immigrant groups such as the Asiatic Exclusion League were swelling in number, and communities up and down the West Coast turned on Indian workers, ransacking their homes and attacking them in the street in an effort to drive them from the country.” www.hnn.us/article/slam...
🗃️ Read @alexandravasti.bsky.social on the history behind her new book, Ladies in Hating, and Raisa Rexer on the history adjacent to her upcoming biography of Laure-Mathilde Gouin. #romancelandia www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/on-a...
On a Hunt for 19th-Century Erotica, We Found Lesbians
What are we to make of the sapphic love depicted in early fiction and photography?
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October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🗃️ Read @alexandravasti.bsky.social on the history behind her new book, Ladies in Hating, and Raisa Rexer on the history adjacent to her upcoming biography of Laure-Mathilde Gouin. #romancelandia www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/on-a...