Stories by samclemens

A History of the Jerks: Bodily Exercises and the Great Revival (1803–1967)

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda Pop (2014)

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state

Aquarius Rising

An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T. (2014)

The Making of Future Man: On Hugo Gernsback (2017)

When Archaeologists Talk Trash (2014)

Why 'Little Women' Endures

No, but I Saw the Game (1989)

A Botulism Outbreak Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System

On Boredom (1975)

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy

The Handwriting of Famous People

The Future of Biography

Wilde about Paris: the sex, drink and liberation of Oscar Wilde’s “lost” years

Going to Graceland

Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midwest (2014)

Romain Gary: The Greatest Literary Conman?

A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched

The Pain Refugees: The forgotten victims of America’s opioid crisis

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