Looking Backward | Kiley Bense | Substack

Antisemitism in America and General Grant's Civil War Order No. 11

A forgotten 20th-century factory fire and the fight to make workplaces safer

Dec 21, 2021

What the history of quarantine can teach us about confronting fear, risk, and uncertainty

Dec 6, 2021

Some of my favorite history books, podcasts, and shows from the past year

Nov 23, 2021

Unraveling the secrets of "Ashley's sack," a material record of the history of slavery

Oct 22, 2021

As 9/11 passes into history, what it means to remember that Tuesday—and its aftermath

Oct 8, 2021

Mary Rogers' death in 1841 inspired frantic media speculation, criminal legislation, and Edgar Allan Poe's fiction

Sep 22, 2021

Six spiritualist women emerge from the shadows of the past

Sep 7, 2021

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