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Showtime in Harpers Ferry: Separating Fact from Fiction in The Good Lord Bird

By Scott Vierick, Historian Since HAI’s three-part blog series on the story of John Brown, millions of people have tuned into Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird, about Henry “Onion” Shackleford, a fictional formerly enslaved teenager, and his encounters with the …

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“A Pleasant Thanksgiving With Nothing To Do”: A Holiday and a Pandemic

By Jen Giambrone, Historian Back in the spring, when quarantines and stay at home orders still felt new, I wrote a blog exploring reactions to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Now, as Americans everywhere ponder how their Thanksgiving celebrations might look …

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Variety is the Pumpkin Spice of Life: A PSL Retrospective

By Mimi Eisen and Colleen Kim, Historians As the days turn colder and darker, we couldn’t let autumn slip away without paying homage to its most iconic bastion: the pumpkin spice latte (PSL). From its sweet, humble beginnings at Starbucks …

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Masterpiece Television: Celebrating 50 Years of PBS

By Scott Vierick, Historian Tonight on Frontline. This is Masterpiece Mystery! Let’s build a happy little cloud. Won’t you be my neighbor? Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Fifty years ago, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) …

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From Starchives to RED Files: The Depiction of Archives in Film

By Margaret Long, Archivist Archives have long been a part of society’s infrastructure as they contain vital documents, objects, and information about various operations of organizations or even society as a whole. It is no surprise, then, that archives have …

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Picture This: Historical Approaches to Data Visualization

By Mimi Eisen, Historian This blog was originally posted on July 16, 2020. Now, at the end of October, there have been more than 227,000 reported deaths from COVID-19.  Lately, I’ve been thinking about the work data visualization can do …

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Risky Business: A Brief History of Mechanized Travel and Changing Perceptions of Danger

By James McDonald, former HAI Research Historian, current Ph.D. candidate Travel has long incorporated some assessment of personal safety, but the mechanization of travel complicated this calculus. Concerns about safety have often conflicted with a desire to take advantage of …

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But How and In What Balance Weigh John Brown? John Brown’s Raid and Harpers Ferry, Part III

By Scott Vierick, Historian This is the final installment in our three-part blog series about John Brown and his legacy. We recommend starting with parts one and two if you haven’t already. In 1861, less than two years after John …

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Crimes of this Guilty Land: John Brown’s Raid and Harpers Ferry, Part II

By Scott Vierick, Historian This is part two of a three-part series on John Brown. If you haven’t already, read the first blog, describing the raid on Harpers Ferry, here. John Brown and other captured raiders would spend the rest …

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A Crack in Time Itself: John Brown’s Raid and Harpers Ferry, Part I

By Scott Vierick, Historian This is the first of a three-part blog series in honor of the 161st anniversary of John Brown’s raid. Check back in next week for the second and third installments of this remarkable and fateful story. …

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From Whistle Stops to Television Spots: A Brief History of Presidential Campaigns

By Margaret Long, Archivist Since the founding of the nation, this United States has had a president in office. This fact has not changed over the years, but the campaign leading up to the election has. In the country’s formative …

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Pan American Unity: Diego Rivera’s Influence on the Cultural Landscape of the United States

By Megan Anderson, Manager of Exhibits & Interpretive Planning National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from September 15 to October 15, gives us a chance to reflect on and celebrate the social and cultural contributions of Americans with ancestral roots in …

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