Archive - Looking Backward

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

Jan 25, 2022

December 2021

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

November 2021

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

Nov 23, 2021

October 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

September 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

August 2021

Climate change and the meteorological extremes of the summer of 1816

Aug 23, 2021

The scandalous suspension of Olympic swimmer Eleanor Holm

Aug 10, 2021

July 2021

The mythology and madness of the Klondike Gold Rush

Jul 26, 2021

The fight about how to teach American history in public schools is an old one

Jul 13, 2021

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