Stories by samclemens

“We dressed up for Halloween”

Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock'n'Roll

What Gets Saved and What Gets Lost: An Interview with Jill Lepore

Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine

On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive

William Rockefeller, Sr.

NPR Guts Its Climate Reporting Team

The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers

Meet the Medieval Manuscript

Four Decades of Inhaling Deeply: A History of ‘High Times’

Escape from Microsoft Word

Andean Atlantis: Race, Science, and the Nazi Occult in Bolivia

How White People Got Made

Go for the Music, Stay for the Holograms

After 75 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous, It’s Time to Admit We Have a Problem

Huntington archivist finds historic piece of China's largest book

A French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on Mars

First Drafts of History: Earliest Extant Versions of Wikipedia Articles

The wasabi sushi restaurants serve is pretty much never actual wasabi

From Miasma to Ebola: The History of Racist Moral Panic Over Disease

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