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Daniel Crown is a freelance historical journalist. His work has appeared at the Washington Post, Gizmodo, Vice, Atlas Obscura, the Awl, the Public Domain Review, Literary Hub, and several other publications.

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The German-Language Newspaper That Got the Scoop on American Independence

The German-Language Newspaper That Got the Scoop on American Independence

On Thursday, July 4, 1776, Heinrich Miller, a 50-year veteran of the newspaper business and publisher of Hein…

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Do As Poor Richard Says, Not As He Does

Do As Poor Richard Says, Not As He Does

From whom, how, and why Benjamin Franklin plagiarized his famous proverbs To modern Americans, Benjamin Frank…

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Incorrigible Sin - The Awl - Medium

Incorrigible Sin - The Awl - Medium

The story of a seventeenth-century fornication trial in Massachusetts Bay One of the worst nights of Sarah Cr…

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The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards

The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards

By any objective standard, Mike Mattimore was a middling professional baseball player. Born three years befor…

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On the Eerie Prescience of a Nazi-Era Diarist

On the Eerie Prescience of a Nazi-Era Diarist

On May 27, 1941, Victor Klemperer found himself ensnared in a familiar paradoxical loop. As the diarist sat d…

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The Instant Pot of the 1600s Was Known as 'the Digester of Bones'

The Instant Pot of the 1600s Was Known as 'the Digester of Bones'

From a strictly culinary perspective, food historians will likely remember 2017 as the year of the Instant Po…

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Immigrant Earnings Assimilation, 1981–2021

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By Randall Akee, Jimmy Chin, Daniel Crown
| National Bureau of Economic Research
We thank Leah Boustan, Molly Dahl, Ira Gang, Rebecca Heller, Seth Sanders, Todd Sorensen, seminar participants at University of Chicago Harris School, and participants at the NBER Spring 2026 “Immigrants and the U.S. Economy” conference for comments. This paper has not been subject to CBO’s regular review and editing process. The views expressed here should not be interpreted as CBO’s.
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Book Review: "Tyranny of the Minority" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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By Steven Levitsky, Daniel Crown, Daniel Ziblatt, G. John Ikenberry
| Foreign Affairs Verified
In This Review In This Review Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point Why has American democracy come so close to a breaking point while other Western democracies appear more stable? In this sobering study, Levitsky and Ziblatt blame the United States’ eighteenth-century constitutional order for its modern democratic woes.
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The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon and The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption

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By Daniel Crown, New England, Philip F. Gura, Ezra Hoyt Byington
| publicdomainreview.org
Portrait of William Pynchon, featured as the frontispiece to The Puritan in England and New England (1896) by Ezra Hoyt Byington - Source. On October 16, 1650, the General Court of Boston summoned the town executioner. Like his name, the executioner’s thoughts as he made his way to the marketplace that afternoon, far from the gallows at Boston Common, remain lost to history.
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