Declared Insane for Speaking Up: The Dark American History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry

The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick.
The Virginian-Pilot

Presidential history: 19th century ballot box stuffing

From the start, there have been many clandestine endeavors to rig election outcomes in the United States. The practice of manipulating presidential, state and local plebiscites has had a far-reaching ...
Time

The 19th Century Thinker Who Touted Tariffs

An engraved portrait of American writer and economist Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) Over the last few weeks President Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered market instability, stoked fears of ...
The EconomistOpinion

If 19th-century plutocrats are dinosaurs, we’re now in Jurassic Park

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...
The Nation

The Second Abolition

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the ...

A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors

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