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Battle over Beer Split a Texas Town's Biggest Party (nytimes.com)

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The Bits We Usually Ignore: Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes, More (millersbookreview.com)

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How to Eat a Rattlesnake (newyorker.com)

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Henry James and H.G. Well's Feud About Writing and the Purpose of Art (2016) (themarginalian.org)

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Rhyme as Reason (bigthink.com)

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Insatiable: A life without eating (longreads.com)

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Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce (publicdomainreview.org)

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A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades (smithsonianmag.com)

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America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150 (hedgehogreview.com)

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Dungeons and Dragons All Started in This Tiny Wisconsin Town (atlasobscura.com)

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Old Newspaper Stories Offer Clues to 19th-Century Shipwreck in Lake Michigan (nytimes.com)

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Tunnel Vision: When you dig beyond all purpose, digging becomes the purpose (historynewsnetwork.org)

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Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinism and Religion in America (conversationswithtyler.com)

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Fighting with Words: Richard Wright's Memoir, 'Black Boy (American Hunger)' (millersbookreview.com)

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Can We Survive Technology? (1955) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)

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Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century (atavist.com)

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The Affair That Split New York High Society (nytimes.com)

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Overlooked No More: Cordell Jackson, Elder Stateswoman of Rock 'N' Roll (nytimes.com)

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The Harvard Body-Snatching Case, and the Economy of Human Remains (thethreepennyguignol.com)

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Beware the Lides of March (historytoday.com)

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Cormac McCarthy's Sideline: Freelance copy editor (millersbookreview.com)

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Michiko Kakutani Was the Most Feared Woman in Publishing. What Happened? (slate.com)

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A.J. Finn had a rise and fall. Now he has a new novel (washingtonpost.com)

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The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax (arstechnica.com)

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The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom (strangersguide.com)

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Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars (historytoday.com)

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How Thoreau challenged understandings of work, technology and the natural world (the-tls.co.uk)

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Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World? (chronicle.com)

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'American Journey' by Wes Davis Review (historytoday.com)

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Lost Highway: The trials of trucking school (harpers.org)

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Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter (newyorker.com)

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Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century (asteriskmag.com)

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Who Is Reading What and Why (countercraft.substack.com)

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The Hold of the Dead over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore (lareviewofbooks.org)

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A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet (hakaimagazine.com)

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Ichiki Shirō (wikipedia.org)

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Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (quillette.com)

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The whale fact chapters in Moby-Dick are among the most memorable (countercraft.substack.com)

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Sliding Doors: The Time GM Fumbled Its Chance to Launch the First Minivan (thedrive.com)

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In the Forest of the Colobus (theamericanscholar.org)

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Christmas on the Moon (longreads.com)

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What it takes to save the axolotl (nytimes.com)

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American librarians helped defeat the Nazis (jstor.org)

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The 50 Years That Made America (historytoday.com)

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When I Met the Pope (lrb.co.uk)

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The Death of a Relic Hunter (newyorker.com)

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The Mummy (wikipedia.org)

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Joyce Carol Oates's relentless, prolific search for a self (newyorker.com)

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The Naturalist and the Jay (hakaimagazine.com)

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Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat" (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Lapham's Quarterly Is on Hiatus (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Family recipes that live on in cemeteries (atlasobscura.com)

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The emptiness of literature written for the market (noemamag.com)

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Thomas Stevens in Japan (1886) (japanbiking.com)

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Four historians tell us a ghost story (historytoday.com)

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NYPL showcases 'electrifying' rare subway photos from 1970s (gothamist.com)

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The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text (loc.gov)

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Louise Glück has died (nytimes.com)

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America's First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon (smithsonianmag.com)

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How to Design a Vernacular Chair (christopherschwarz.substack.com)

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Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty (newyorker.com)

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The Quiet Revolution of the Sabbath (newyorker.com)

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Sketches of misfortune in an insurance trade card (forgottenfiles.substack.com)

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Travelin’ man and woman: Taking to the road and the boxcar (the-tls.co.uk)

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One robber baron’s gamble on railroads (smithsonianmag.com)

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A magnificent 1850s house dubbed the Blue Belle of Brooklyn (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)

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Mysteries of the Court of Miracles (reynolds-news.com)

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The Early Days of American English (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry (themillions.com)

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A Harvard library mystery: Was a Titanic victim’s rare book a fake? (washingtonpost.com)

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Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution (smithsonianmag.com)

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How iceberg won the lettuce wars (atlasobscura.com)

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The headline-grabbing debate over which explorer reached the North Pole soonest (nytimes.com)

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A Man Who Transformed American Theater (theatlantic.com)

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A Repugnance to Autobiography (laphamsquarterly.org)

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When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon (jstor.org)

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The Master Fabulist of American Fiction (newyorker.com)

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Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum (atlasobscura.com)

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California Job Case (wikipedia.org)

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Impressions of American Hotels 1883-1898 (2022) (theamericanmenu.com)

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How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State’s Tourism Industry (smithsonianmag.com)

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Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood (newyorker.com)

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From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter (nytimes.com)

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A surprising dearth of spectacled bears (laphamsquarterly.org)

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How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee (newyorker.com)

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At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities (nytimes.com)

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She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter (nytimes.com)

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How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long, Local History (atlasobscura.com)

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The Tyranny of the Tale (newyorker.com)

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The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014) (readex.com)

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Old Weird America: The Dark Comedies of Charles Portis (thepointmag.com)

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Burying Indiana Jones (newyorker.com)

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Underage Enlistment in the United States and the Confederacy (commonplace.online)

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‘The Whiskey Rebellion’ Review: A Young Nation, Suddenly Tested (wsj.com)

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Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (publicdomainreview.org)

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Did This Writer Know Tennessee Williams? (newyorker.com)

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Chronicler of the Flower Moon (theringer.com)

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A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (2019) (atlasobscura.com)

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Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away (nytimes.com)

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