Thread by @bernybelvedere

Something I haven't touted as much, though I want to now, is @ArcDigi's commitment to publishing *historical* columns. Our main focus is on current events. But this world did not poof into existence five minutes ago—so history will continue to be a key offering in Arc's lineup.

Here's a piece we just published by @NathGAlexander on the controversy surrounding a work called "Black Athena," which takes us to ancient Greece, Africa, and to investigating whether retrofitting our concepts of race represents unjustified anachronism.

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Here's a piece we published a few days ago by @LDBurnett on the effects that a shift in publishing models in earlier centuries had on the world of literature, and on the fortunes of writers. She then ties it in to a shift we might be seeing today.

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Here's a piece by Micah Bradford in which the presence of *contempt* or *disdain* in America is looked at from a variety of angles, including a historical one, going all the way back to the colonial era.

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Here's a piece by @AndrewSshi on what some major elements of Christendom might have considered a "dangerous idea" during the Middle Ages. It serves up an interesting contrast to what we find dangerous today.

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Here's a piece by @jl_wall on James Weldon Johnson, who wrote a hymn and changed American history. I find it impossible *not* to be moved by "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing." Read about it.

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Here's some excellent metahistory from @MedlinWrites: exploring how historians themselves grappled with events happening in the turbulence of the late '60s.

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Here's the brilliant @Joshua_A_Tait on how the news environment during Watergate, specifically on the right, was so different than the one we have in place today.

Tait's been away on dissertation duty but hopefully we get him back soon!

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Here's Vanessa Holloway, who wrote this for us a couple of years back, on the black experience during the Reconstruction Era. It's so good.

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There is so much more. This was just a sampling.

Historians, get in touch. @ArcDigi is very much interested in your work.