Footnotes: Annotating the Past

Are Books Getting Worse?

Every generation seems convinced that its culture is in decline.

Apr 22 • Ethan Healey

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"Now He Belongs to the Ages"

Memory, Fragmentation, and the Afterlife of Abraham Lincoln

Apr 15 • Ethan Healey

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March 2026

Growing Sideways in New England

Why Noah Kahan Matters

Mar 24 • Ethan Healey

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December 2025

Mothers of the Early Republic

Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, and Republican Motherhood

Dec 13, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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The Lessons of the Gulf of Tonkin

A study of crisis, power, and the narratives that shape public trust

Dec 3, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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November 2025

Ken Burns and the Meaning of the American Revolution

Reflections on Historical Memory and the Approach of the 250th Anniversary

Nov 20, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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Abraham Lincoln’s Quiet Burden

A Review of Joshua Wolf Shenk’s "Lincoln’s Melancholy"

Nov 16, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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Veterans and The Things They Carried

On Memory, Literature, and the Quiet Work of Carrying What Remains

Nov 11, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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The Boy Mayor in New York City

The city once trusted a 34-year-old reformer to rebuild itself. A century later, it’s doing it again.

Nov 6, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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May 2025

Mister Rogers’ Plea

The Essential Role of NPR and PBS in Our Culture

May 29, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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March 2025

New England, Present Tense

A Poem

Mar 28, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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The American Revolution and How We Remember It

Review of the book "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History," by Michael D. Hattem

Mar 7, 2025 • Ethan Healey

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