“The past isn’t dead; it’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
That being said, perhaps you’d like to peruse some of our previous pieces about the past?
2018
- Fizzstory: Seltzer’s Thirsty Past
- History Podcasts are Female Too
- Settling the Dino-Score for Mary Anning
- The Past is Female Too: Momuments
- Four More Wars: Historical Conflicts Worth Reprising
- The Definitely Not Funny History Behind London’s Big Stink
- The Dog Days of Summer
- The Fat Times, Or History’s Best Euphemisms
- Who’s That Guy? It’s Guy!
- Royal Romance: Not Always A Fairytale
- Labor Vs. Capitol Records
- Helen Richey: Flying the Unfriendly Skies
- I’ll Be There For You: Vienna in 1913
- Those Squirrely Little Freeloaders: How America Went Nuts for Squirrels
- Hippo Meat! It’s What Was Almost for Dinner
- The Past is Female Too: Women Are Animals
- My Humps, My Humps: The Short but Spectacular Life of the U.S. Camel Corps
- The Past is Female Too: Go For the Gold
- Mary Kenner is My Shero, Period
- Punxsatawney Phil, The Real O.G. (Original Groundhog)
- Squad Goals: Henriette DeLille and the Sisters of the Holy Family
- The Mother of Miami
- The Past is Female Too: Lady Laffs Edition
- Tell Him Bird, Bye
- Really, Really Relevant Lessons from 19th-Century Paraguay
2017
- 2017 is History; 2018 is Sistory
- The Past is Female Too: Holy Mother Edition
- Disney’s Next Franchise: Pirates of the Ohio River
- Up With Down Jackets
- At Least Madge Wallace Isn’t Your Mother in Law
- On Queen Christina and Walking Away From it All
- The Past is Female Too, J.D.
- The Past is Female Too: Radiant Babes on Radio Waves
- The Past is Female Too: Revolutionary War Edition
- The Past is Female Too: Kentucky Edition
- Lissen Up: Talking Southern Jewish Foodways with Olivia Brown
- This is My Fight Song, This is Your Fight Song
- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Whose Husband You Murdered
- It Started With the Whiskers
- Jugtown, USA
- Crimes Against Chastity
- It’s a Bird, It’s a Train, It’s a Common Misconception
- More Than Just a Pretty Face: How an Old Hollywood Beauty Invented the Internet
- Squad Goals: Can a Girl Get a Monument?
- Ever Since the Civil War I Been Poppin’ My Paper Collar
- Dedicated to the Diffusion of Knowledge
- Shipping the Nuts out of Georgia: The Radical Roots of Habitat for Humanity
- I’ll Serve in Congress Over My Husband’s Dead Body
- #SquadGoals: Qiu Jin, China’s Feminist Shero
- Don’t Go Chasing (Fame in) Waterfalls
- When America Didn’t Have a Square to Spare
- A Kentucky Divided Cannot Stand
- Loud and Proud: An Annual Reminder
- Bridge-It Jones’ Diary, Part 3: The Harvard Bridge
- The Boy Who Never Grew Up (Or Out of Copyright)
- Gin and Tonic with a Twist of Empire
- ‘Dear Father, You Are A Thief’
- A Darien Adventure: How Scotland Tried (and Failed) to Become a World Power
- Bridge-It Jones’ Diary, Pt. 2: The Waterloo Bridge
- Everybody Move Now
- The Buses are Rolling! How Denver Got Its First Newspaper
- What Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Couldn’t Quite Transcend
- A Frank Lloyd Wrightmare
- Rest in Power: Three Sisters, the Graveyard Shift and the Supreme Court
- Women of the West, In a Town Called Opportunity
- Liquor Ladies: Female Bootleggers During Prohibition
- Bridge-It Jones’ Diary, Part 1: The Brooklyn Bridge
- The Historical Precedent for Turning 25
- The Recent Past: Dorothy Counts
- The History of Black History Month
- A (Female!) Buffalo Soldier
- Let’s Do the Time Warp: A Time Capsule in the Massachusetts State House
- QUIZ: How Captain John Smith Are You?
- Party Like It’s 1829
- Let Willy the Hillbilly Tickle Your Innards: A Mountain History of Mountain Dew
- And Man Can Only Mar It: Grief, Nature and the Urge to Protect and Preserve
2016
- 2016: It’s History
- Coal Mining: Back-Breaking for Men, Barrier-Breaking for Marilyn McCusker
- Grover Cleveland: Cougar or Kitty-Cat?
- Squad Goals, Part 3: Frisky and Bitchy
- Santa First
- Seal The Deal: History’s Greatest Slogans
- Go For the Gold, Stay For The Olympic History
- Squad Goals Part II: Something for the Girls of Savannah, and America, and All the World
- Are You Afraid of Listicles? 5 History Fun Facts to Bring to Your Next Halloween Party
- This Hat is on Fire
- The Legend of Stingy Jack
- Ouija Boards: Exactly as freaky as you think they are (and then some)
- Bringin Da Noyes (Academy)
- Dog-Bear-Man: How Wojtek Won The War
- Brews and Boycotts: How Organized Labor Brought Down a Beer Empire
- Loose Lips (and Not Enough Scientists) Sink Ships
- Neil, We Missed the Whole Thing
- Wrighting a Wrong: Who Was Really First in Flight?
- Oh Cecilia, You’re Breaking My Glass Ceiling
- Flying Solo: Confinements of the Cage
- Welcome South, Brother: How a Radio Station Put Georgia on the Map
- Traditions, Toilet Paper and Telegraphs: Toomer’s Corner
- The Greatest Sports Movie Never Made
- How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop Mystery?
- Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a WASP
- Nikola Tesla’s Sophomore Slump
- Squad Goals: Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt
- Frontier Tears: Could I have made it as a pioneer?
- Re-Introducing America to Americans
- An Unpopular Opinion of Walt Disney
- We Want a Pitcher, Not an Hourglass Figure
- Mama Said There’d Be Reigns Like These
- Frida Kahlo and the Closed Complaint Department
- The Star Shmangled Banner
- Go West, Young (White) Man!
- The Original Flash Mob: The Dancing Plague of 1518
- Diamonds on My Neck, Ice on My Boat: The Frederic Tudor Story
- Girls Have Cooties, and Other American Political Myths
- Let’s Talk About the Liberty Bell
- She-Merchants: Sell Goods, Get Money, Be Beholden To No Man
- Well-Behaved Women Rarely Get Their Quotes Attributed Correctly
- Marco Rubio, Middle Child
- It’s a Leap Year! Someone Remind 18th Century Sweden
- It’s All in the Family
- Sistory: A Starticle