Stories by samclemens

When Cars Kill

Work the Lazy Way: Annie Payson Call’s advice to nineteenth-century workers

A Bloop and a Blast: The mysterious, mercurial world of baseball fandom

What Was the Wiretap?

The Happiness Blues (2015)

What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was happening?

The Histories of To-Go Container Art

Surface innocence: On the enduring appeal of puzzles

Is Mark Twain’s old age best forgotten?

A Worthy Cause?

Washington Plays Itself

Comparing editions of David Walker’s abolitionist “Appeal”

Sammy's Bowery Follies, circa 1945

People who decide what becomes history

Fools at Court

Indigenous American Cylinder Recordings and the American Folklife Center (2013)

Heroic Newsboy Funerals

Praising Maple Sugar in the Early American Republic

Apollo 10 1/2 Reanimated Houston’s Lost Memories of the ’60s

The Unsung Women of the Betty Crocker Test Kitchens

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