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Possibly a Serious Possibility (kucharski.substack.com)

5 days ago | samclemens | substack.com | best

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Mark Twain was the original American celebrity (wsj.com)

a week ago | samclemens | wsj.com | newest

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The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make English Words Behave (nytimes.com)

a week ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Chariot and Saucer (jewishreviewofbooks.com)

a week ago | samclemens | jewishreviewofbooks.com | frontpage

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Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte (publicdomainreview.org)

2 weeks ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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"Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa (publicbooks.org)

2 weeks ago | samclemens | publicbooks.org | frontpage

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'Bright Circle' and 'Margaret Fuller': The Rise of the Transcendental Woman (wsj.com)

2 weeks ago | samclemens | wsj.com | frontpage

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What America Can Learn from the Americas (newrepublic.com)

3 weeks ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | newest

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The Heir Conditioner (lareviewofbooks.org)

4 weeks ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak (neh.gov)

a month ago | samclemens | neh.gov | frontpage

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Henry James's American Journey (chronicle.com)

a month ago | samclemens | chronicle.com | frontpage

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Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century (publicdomainreview.org)

a month ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Graydon Carter's Wild Ride Through the Golden Age of Magazines (newyorker.com)

a month ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Billy Possum Tried–and Failed–To Replace the Teddy Bear as America's Toy (smithsonianmag.com)

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Dante's Divine Autofiction (newstatesman.com)

a month ago | samclemens | newstatesman.com | frontpage

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Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Baritsu (historytoday.com)

a month ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

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When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From? (smithsonianmag.com)

2 months ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The Cocaine Files (cbc.ca)

2 months ago | samclemens | cbc.ca | frontpage

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The Gilded Age Never Ended (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | newest

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How Have Cults Shaped American History? (historytoday.com)

3 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Stolen and Missing Moon Rocks (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Prudence and Principles of Martin Van Buren (lawliberty.org)

3 months ago | samclemens | lawliberty.org | newest

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Nellie Bly (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Losing It on Live TV (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time (historytoday.com)

4 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | frontpage

13

Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II (newrepublic.com)

4 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | frontpage

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Potoooooooo (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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Bunkers in Albania (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | best

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1972 – 1982: The Decade That Changed Fitness Forever (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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Turkish chef recreates 8,600-year-old Neolithic bread (aa.com.tr)

4 months ago | samclemens | aa.com.tr | newest

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The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles (commonplace.online)

4 months ago | samclemens | commonplace.online | best

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The Editor Who Drove Hemingway Away (jstor.org)

4 months ago | samclemens | jstor.org | newest

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Bad Moon Rising (archaeology.org)

4 months ago | samclemens | archaeology.org | frontpage

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Christmas Before Charles Dickens (historytoday.com)

5 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (thebaffler.com)

5 months ago | samclemens | thebaffler.com | frontpage

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The One Hundred Pages Strategy (thelampmagazine.com)

5 months ago | samclemens | thelampmagazine.com | frontpage

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True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)

5 months ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm Stores? (2018) (wbur.org)

5 months ago | samclemens | wbur.org | newest

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Slouch: Posture panic in modern America (thenation.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | thenation.com | frontpage

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A Diver Found a Ring Lost 50 Years Ago Near Barbados (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A Woman Who Defined the Great Depression (newrepublic.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | frontpage

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The Allure of Medieval Churches (historytoday.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Journalists and the "Origin Story" of Working from Home (saturdayeveningpost.com)

6 months ago | samclemens | saturdayeveningpost.com | newest

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The heartbreak behind Dorothy Parker's wit (washingtonpost.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Age Before Duty: What role does age play in determining the status of equals? (historynewsnetwork.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | historynewsnetwork.org | newest

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Scott Fitzgerald's Last Act (city-journal.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | city-journal.org | best

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When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life (smithsonianmag.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher (2013) (laphamsquarterly.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022) (thecraftsmanblog.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | thecraftsmanblog.com | best

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The Larkin Soap Company (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Sears Homes 1915-1920 (searsarchives.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | searsarchives.com | best

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Can the Nobel Prize Save Publishing from Itself? (newrepublic.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | newest

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The many traditions of non-governmental money (2018) (unenumerated.blogspot.com)

7 months ago | samclemens | blogspot.com | newest

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American Mythology (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Weird Nonfiction (lareviewofbooks.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | best

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Weird Nonfiction (lareviewofbooks.org)

7 months ago | samclemens | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Foraging for America's Forgotten Fruit (atlasobscura.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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A Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (Ca. 1869) (publicdomainreview.org)

8 months ago | samclemens | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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In the Shack with Robert Caro (curbed.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | curbed.com | frontpage

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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs (historytoday.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | historytoday.com | newest

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Death of the Department Store (lrb.co.uk)

8 months ago | samclemens | lrb.co.uk | best

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In the Shack with Robert Caro (curbed.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | curbed.com | frontpage

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A Little History of the Anchovy (engelsbergideas.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | engelsbergideas.com | frontpage

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Adventures in Style (chronicle.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | chronicle.com | frontpage

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Philosophy of the People (aeon.co)

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Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us (newyorker.com)

8 months ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | newest

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The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (literaryreview.co.uk)

8 months ago | samclemens | literaryreview.co.uk | frontpage

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Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era (thewalrus.ca)

8 months ago | samclemens | thewalrus.ca | best

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Moondance: Experience the marvel that is night-blooming tobacco (theamericanscholar.org)

8 months ago | samclemens | theamericanscholar.org | frontpage

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What it's like to work on cold cases (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins Changed the Face of Publishing (lithub.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | lithub.com | newest

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Emily Dickinson's Known World (nationalreview.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | nationalreview.com | newest

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McDonald's Found Out Its Popular Monopoly Game Was a Fraud (crimereads.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | crimereads.com | newest

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The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass (honest-broker.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | honest-broker.com | best

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A Sports Agent Went Viral. He Isn't Ready to Fade Away (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | newest

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What is the ideal chapter length? (2023) (penguin.co.uk)

9 months ago | samclemens | penguin.co.uk | best

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The Private Life: On James Baldwin (theparisreview.org)

9 months ago | samclemens | theparisreview.org | best

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Eric Roberts (Spy) (wikipedia.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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I Miss Lorina Bulwer: A hand-stitched letter of note (lettersofnote.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | lettersofnote.com | frontpage

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The curious history of chain letters (2010) (slate.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | slate.com | frontpage

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America Became "A City Upon a Hill": The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller (neh.gov)

10 months ago | samclemens | neh.gov | newest

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The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey (bigthink.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | bigthink.com | best

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Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists (lookout.co)

10 months ago | samclemens | lookout.co | best

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I put up a fence in Maine. Why did it cause such a fuss? (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The Unexpected Afterlife of Autobiography of a Face (newrepublic.com)

10 months ago | samclemens | newrepublic.com | newest

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George Eyser, the one-legged gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games (theamericanscholar.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | theamericanscholar.org | newest

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Overexposed (historynewsnetwork.org)

10 months ago | samclemens | historynewsnetwork.org | frontpage

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An Accident in Space (1972) (newyorker.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992) (cliomuse.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | cliomuse.com | best

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Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history (snackstack.net)

11 months ago | samclemens | snackstack.net | best

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Survival Situation: The debate over evolution and its discoverer (theamericanscholar.org)

11 months ago | samclemens | theamericanscholar.org | frontpage

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Orwell: The Rewrite (drb.ie)

11 months ago | samclemens | drb.ie | best

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Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions' (atlasobscura.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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The technologies of all dead generations (2023) (bentarnoff.substack.com)

11 months ago | samclemens | substack.com | newest

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The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Hari Kunzru on Rereading the Classics (theguardian.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | theguardian.com | frontpage

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America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation (theconversation.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | theconversation.com | newest

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What Is an Editor? (tabletmag.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | tabletmag.com | newest

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The Bestselling English Novels of the 19th Century, Ranked: Part One (theseaofbooks.com)

12 months ago | samclemens | theseaofbooks.com | frontpage