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samclemens

24,630karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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57 pts
World’s fairs acted as showcases for American cocktail ingenuity(punchdrink.com)
4y ago·4 comments
19 pts
The monkeys and parrots caught up in the California gold rush(smithsonianmag.com)
4y ago·8 comments
16 pts
A Whale of a Story(theamericanscholar.org)
4y ago·1 comments
31 pts
We All Scream for Ice Cream (2018)(historytoday.com)
4y ago·7 comments
158 pts
The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I(constructionphysics.substack.com)
4y ago·174 comments
7 pts
When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’(smithsonianmag.com)
4y ago·discuss
4 pts
The Game Monopologs (1960)(rand.org)
4y ago·discuss
13 pts
How TS Eliot Found Happiness(newstatesman.com)
4y ago·1 comments
63 pts
1942–1944 Musicians' Strike(en.wikipedia.org)
4y ago·23 comments
31 pts
Cycles of History: On Jody Rosen’s “Two Wheels Good”(lareviewofbooks.org)
4y ago·7 comments
4 pts
“The Falls”: A View from the Inside (2021)(georgesaunders.substack.com)
4y ago·discuss
19 pts
World War II Led to Washington’s First Outing(washingtonpost.com)
4y ago·discuss
84 pts
How James Patterson became the world’s best-selling author(newyorker.com)
4y ago·84 comments
20 pts
The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy (1939)(en.wikisource.org)
4y ago·4 comments
53 pts
A history of vintage steel kitchen cabinets(retrorenovation.com)
4y ago·23 comments
51 pts
A Day at the Grease Plant(placesjournal.org)
4y ago·15 comments
7 pts
Fit Pics: The history of athletic fashion for women(bookforum.com)
4y ago·2 comments
2 pts
When Cars Kill(newyorker.com)
4y ago·discuss
1 pts
Work the Lazy Way: Annie Payson Call’s advice to nineteenth-century workers(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·discuss
8 pts
A Bloop and a Blast: The mysterious, mercurial world of baseball fandom(bookforum.com)
4y ago·discuss
42 pts
What Was the Wiretap?(thenation.com)
4y ago·6 comments
23 pts
The Happiness Blues (2015)(oxfordamerican.org)
4y ago·discuss
229 pts
What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was happening?(historytoday.com)
4y ago·258 comments
2 pts
The Histories of To-Go Container Art(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·discuss
1 pts
Surface innocence: On the enduring appeal of puzzles(the-tls.co.uk)
4y ago·discuss
27 pts
The Birth of Anchor Books(theamericanscholar.org)
4y ago·15 comments
33 pts
Is Mark Twain’s old age best forgotten?(spectator.co.uk)
4y ago·18 comments
11 pts
A Worthy Cause?(historytoday.com)
4y ago·discuss
17 pts
Washington Plays Itself(newrepublic.com)
4y ago·4 comments
11 pts
Comparing editions of David Walker’s abolitionist “Appeal”(daily.jstor.org)
4y ago·discuss