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Driving Off Into the Sunset

Essay on the Fast and the Furious film franchise. For Virginia Quarterly Review

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Podcast on the History of American Slavery

Limited series with cohost Jamelle Bouie. For Slate

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On the archive of the 19th-century Nelson Brothers. For Slate

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Essay on the idea of generations. For Aeon Magazine

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Interview with historian Gavriel Rosenfeld about Hitler humor online. For the Boston Globe

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How glop became a pivotal symbol of kids’ culture. For the Atlantic

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An essay on two historians’ attempt to write Big History. For the Boston Globe

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Essay on the Letters of Note project and the Internet’s idea of history. For the Virginia Quarterly Review

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Feature on the Ladies’ Home Journal column “Can This Marriage Be Saved.” For Aeon Magazine

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Essay on 1980s children and their fears of the Bomb. For The Appendix

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Against “relatable.” For Slate

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Essay on a lost tradition. For the Boston Globe

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Essay on space whales and seventies culture. For Lapham’s Quarterly