In the spring of 2019, a widely circulated column assailed the field of history for being too "esoteric," in particular calling out subfields like women's and …
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Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.
Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirectly from the ownership of enslaved people. Historians have neglected these …
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Episode 119: Beatlemania and the 55th Anniversary of the First Beatles Tour to the US
The Beatles arrived for their first concert in the United States on February 11, 1964 to rabid fanfare. Legions of screaming women greeted John Lennon, Paul …