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The Homes of Our Ancestors
The men who made the Metropolitan Museum's American Wing
Kiley Bense
May 17, 2021
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Our Heroic Dead
Modern Memorial Day's Civil War and Reconstruction roots
Kiley Bense
May 31, 2021
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The Poor Unfortunate Murdered Girl
Mary Rogers' death in 1841 inspired frantic media speculation, criminal legislation, and Edgar Allan Poe's fiction
Kiley Bense
Sep 22, 2021
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Ash Wednesday
As 9/11 passes into history, what it means to remember that Tuesday—and its aftermath
Kiley Bense
Oct 8, 2021
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The Wickedest Town in the West
What was gun control like in the Wild West?
Kiley Bense
May 3, 2021
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How Long the Hobble Skirt?
In the 1910s, the hobble skirt was blamed for traffic accidents, bankruptcies, and setting back the women's rights movement
Kiley Bense
Jun 14, 2021
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Any Convenient Fairy Tale
The fight about how to teach American history in public schools is an old one
Kiley Bense
Jul 13, 2021
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Water Queen
The scandalous suspension of Olympic swimmer Eleanor Holm
Kiley Bense
Aug 10, 2021
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Twentieth Century Blues
What was the aftermath of the 1918 pandemic really like?
Kiley Bense
Apr 19, 2021
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She Was Not Mad
How the 19th-century American asylum was used as a tool to control and punish women
Kiley Bense
Jun 29, 2021
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Strange Weather
Climate change and the meteorological extremes of the summer of 1816
Kiley Bense
Aug 23, 2021
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No One Was to Blame
A forgotten 20th-century factory fire and the fight to make workplaces safer
Kiley Bense
Dec 21, 2021
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