April White
@aprwhite.bsky.social
Writer & historian. Author, THE DIVORCE COLONY—"a spellbinding look into a forgotten history," a "riveting, proudly feminist book." More at aprwhite.com
In the category of "all too relevant." From me, over at Popular Science:
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In the category of "all too relevant." From me, over at Popular Science:
Reposted by April White
This week on the podcast, @aprwhite.bsky.social, author of The Divorce Colony, joins us to discuss How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.
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Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
April White on Sioux Falls' Divorce Colony by Infinite Women
April White, author of The Divorce Colony, joins us to discuss How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-conte...
creators.spotify.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This week on the podcast, @aprwhite.bsky.social, author of The Divorce Colony, joins us to discuss How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.
Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Bluesky historians, assemble! Who are the people in these mostly anonymous photos from the Xavier University of Louisiana archives? daily.jstor.org/clue-seeking...
Seeking Clues in Cabinet Cards - JSTOR Daily
The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.
daily.jstor.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Bluesky historians, assemble! Who are the people in these mostly anonymous photos from the Xavier University of Louisiana archives? daily.jstor.org/clue-seeking...
I'm having fun over at JSTOR Daily again. This time I'm wandering through their awesome shared photo collections for my new monthly column Archive Adventures: daily.jstor.org/the-vanishin...
The “Vanishing Types” of Doris Ulmann - JSTOR Daily
As her extensive body of work shows, Ulmann felt the loss of an imagined simpler time and tried to preserve it with her camera.
daily.jstor.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I'm having fun over at JSTOR Daily again. This time I'm wandering through their awesome shared photo collections for my new monthly column Archive Adventures: daily.jstor.org/the-vanishin...
The very best part about writing THE DIVORCE COLONY is reconnecting with old friends. Eric Harper and I could talk about *anything.* For this ep of Neighborhood Bookstore we (mostly) stuck to feminism, paparazzi, Westerns, railroads, archives, and the contentious past and uncertain future of divorce
April White Talks The Divorce Colony
On the Season One Finale of Neighborhood Bookstore, historian and journalist April White discusses her narrative nonfiction book THE DIVORCE COLONY
ericharperpresents.substack.com
July 9, 2024 at 3:29 PM
The very best part about writing THE DIVORCE COLONY is reconnecting with old friends. Eric Harper and I could talk about *anything.* For this ep of Neighborhood Bookstore we (mostly) stuck to feminism, paparazzi, Westerns, railroads, archives, and the contentious past and uncertain future of divorce
May we all find what Sunny Stroeer did on the Iditarod Trail: "I was having a good day when I spent 14, 15, 16 hours just in my head...that is such a relief compared to day-to-day life and the stresses of...just being a human in the 21st century, you know?" www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Page...
Surviving the Iditarod
Adventurer Sunny Stroeer (MBA 2011) is always hunting for her limit. Would she find it while skiing 1,000 miles through the Alaskan wilderness?
www.alumni.hbs.edu
July 8, 2024 at 1:43 PM
May we all find what Sunny Stroeer did on the Iditarod Trail: "I was having a good day when I spent 14, 15, 16 hours just in my head...that is such a relief compared to day-to-day life and the stresses of...just being a human in the 21st century, you know?" www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Page...
And now for something...well, just as depressing as everything else: Me and a bunch of super smart people on the dangers of limiting access to divorce, which is, unbelievably, a thing again podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
White Picket Fence: Our Divorce Dilemma on Apple Podcasts
Show White Picket Fence, Ep Our Divorce Dilemma - Jul 2, 2024
podcasts.apple.com
July 3, 2024 at 12:02 PM
And now for something...well, just as depressing as everything else: Me and a bunch of super smart people on the dangers of limiting access to divorce, which is, unbelievably, a thing again podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Always so much fun to contribute to the Criminal podcast. Me on "the demon spread" and the weird history of oleo margarine smuggling: thisiscriminal.com/episode-273-...
Episode 273: The Demon Spread (06.21.2024)
“The ingenuity of depraved human genius has culminated in the production of margarine.”
thisiscriminal.com
June 24, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Always so much fun to contribute to the Criminal podcast. Me on "the demon spread" and the weird history of oleo margarine smuggling: thisiscriminal.com/episode-273-...
This week in news you need: A missing Warhol, a 250-year-old history mystery and a gigantic hamburger in the sky www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
Wonder Is Everywhere: A Giant Burger, a Missing Warhol, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
April 12, 2024 at 3:02 PM
This week in news you need: A missing Warhol, a 250-year-old history mystery and a gigantic hamburger in the sky www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
You’ve got to read about the biggest art fraud in history—uncovered just last years by authorities in Canada. Plus more unbelievable story recommendations:
Wonder Is Everywhere: Ancient Lipstick, Darwin’s Library, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
March 3, 2024 at 6:56 PM
You’ve got to read about the biggest art fraud in history—uncovered just last years by authorities in Canada. Plus more unbelievable story recommendations:
I'm at that part of the book process where the interviews aren't about THE DIVORCE COLONY exactly, but about the history of divorce more generally and it's so cool to see people responding to/building on this story and its legacy. Thanks to Donna Shill for asking me to be on this thoughtful podcast
Divorce & What It Means to Choose Yourself — Thread the Needle
Calling all divorcees & divorce curious! Going through a divorce is a
decidedly sucky process. While still taboo, the dreaded D word is extremely
common—in the U.S., about 1 million women file for d...
theneedle.co
February 12, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I'm at that part of the book process where the interviews aren't about THE DIVORCE COLONY exactly, but about the history of divorce more generally and it's so cool to see people responding to/building on this story and its legacy. Thanks to Donna Shill for asking me to be on this thoughtful podcast
The fun of writing for Atlas Obscura is being free to shout out stories about a Japanese cryptid, a Nigerian music phenomenon, an ancient Amazonian city and a Virginian gas station/church, all in the same article
Wonder Is Everywhere: A Jumping Japanese Cryptid, Ancient Amazonian Cities, and More From Around the...
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
February 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
The fun of writing for Atlas Obscura is being free to shout out stories about a Japanese cryptid, a Nigerian music phenomenon, an ancient Amazonian city and a Virginian gas station/church, all in the same article
Reconsidering my career choices, now that I know "cosmic dust curator" is an actual job. Plus other cool things I learned this week:
Wonder Is Everywhere: The Cosmic Dust Curator, a Secret Ancient Forest, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 19, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Reconsidering my career choices, now that I know "cosmic dust curator" is an actual job. Plus other cool things I learned this week:
A couple of years ago some researchers at the University of Chicago looked at this century-old photo of Albert Einstein at Yerkes Observatory and thought "huh, I wonder who all those women are?"
As you might expect, the answer is fascinating: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yer...
As you might expect, the answer is fascinating: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yer...
January 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM
A couple of years ago some researchers at the University of Chicago looked at this century-old photo of Albert Einstein at Yerkes Observatory and thought "huh, I wonder who all those women are?"
As you might expect, the answer is fascinating: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yer...
As you might expect, the answer is fascinating: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yer...
Some wondrous stories to start the new year, including @restofworld.org’s delightful dictionary of lol and @hakaimagazine.bsky.social’s portrait of the US’s last lighthouse keeper.
Plus: A coded message hidden in a 19th-century silk dress finally revealed
Plus: A coded message hidden in a 19th-century silk dress finally revealed
Wonder Is Everywhere: Silk Dress Secret, the Last Lightkeeper, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 5, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Some wondrous stories to start the new year, including @restofworld.org’s delightful dictionary of lol and @hakaimagazine.bsky.social’s portrait of the US’s last lighthouse keeper.
Plus: A coded message hidden in a 19th-century silk dress finally revealed
Plus: A coded message hidden in a 19th-century silk dress finally revealed
What a treat to spend my time reading the most wondrous stories on the internet, like Terrence McCoy on the decades-long love affair of Romeo and Julieta—two macaws in Rio.
Plus: Egyptian artifacts buried in Scotland, a hammerhead shark nursery and 1 million new homes in Pakistan
Plus: Egyptian artifacts buried in Scotland, a hammerhead shark nursery and 1 million new homes in Pakistan
Wonder Is Everywhere: Avian Love, Medieval Myths, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 8, 2023 at 8:06 PM
What a treat to spend my time reading the most wondrous stories on the internet, like Terrence McCoy on the decades-long love affair of Romeo and Julieta—two macaws in Rio.
Plus: Egyptian artifacts buried in Scotland, a hammerhead shark nursery and 1 million new homes in Pakistan
Plus: Egyptian artifacts buried in Scotland, a hammerhead shark nursery and 1 million new homes in Pakistan
Let's start the week off right with amazing stories about the benefits of walking backwards, the geological origins of the Great Sphinx, the American tradition of forging Viking artifacts, the dream of secret city under Greenland's ice...and much more
Wonder Is Everywhere: Viking Hoaxes, a Secret Nuclear Ice Base, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 27, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Let's start the week off right with amazing stories about the benefits of walking backwards, the geological origins of the Great Sphinx, the American tradition of forging Viking artifacts, the dream of secret city under Greenland's ice...and much more
This week in Wonder is Everywhere: Explore the remote cybercrime haven of Tokelau with @jacobjudah.bsky.social and @techreview.bsky.social and blame your nightmares about giant flesh-eating lampreys on Smithsonian Magazine.
Wonder Is Everywhere: Ancient Lampreys, Outdoor Learning, and More From Around the Web
Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 13, 2023 at 2:57 PM
This week in Wonder is Everywhere: Explore the remote cybercrime haven of Tokelau with @jacobjudah.bsky.social and @techreview.bsky.social and blame your nightmares about giant flesh-eating lampreys on Smithsonian Magazine.
Yes, you need to hear Gladys Knight opine on football, Tammy Wynette introduce her four-pound Pomeranian, Killer, and Aerosmith joke about New Kids on the Block. Just a few of the treasures from music journalist Larry Katz's decades of superstar interviews. (Now fully digitized!)
Unearthing Gems in a Massive Archive of Rock Star Interviews
“They are unpolished and unvarnished.”
www.atlasobscura.com
November 6, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Yes, you need to hear Gladys Knight opine on football, Tammy Wynette introduce her four-pound Pomeranian, Killer, and Aerosmith joke about New Kids on the Block. Just a few of the treasures from music journalist Larry Katz's decades of superstar interviews. (Now fully digitized!)
This is a week in need of a little wonder. Let’s go in search of the world’s oldest trees with @geohumanist.bsky.social and meet the community saving the the world’s heaviest ball of twine. More at Atlas Obscura: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
October 27, 2023 at 1:20 PM
This is a week in need of a little wonder. Let’s go in search of the world’s oldest trees with @geohumanist.bsky.social and meet the community saving the the world’s heaviest ball of twine. More at Atlas Obscura: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
What I’m reading right now: Tales of an accidental mummy, a murdered tree, multiplying fairy circles, disappearing sharks, mysterious tarot cards, an “enchanting” tarantula and more. Check out Wonder is Everywhere on Atlas Obscura www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
October 13, 2023 at 1:48 PM
What I’m reading right now: Tales of an accidental mummy, a murdered tree, multiplying fairy circles, disappearing sharks, mysterious tarot cards, an “enchanting” tarantula and more. Check out Wonder is Everywhere on Atlas Obscura www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
Oh, it would have been polite to introduce myself, huh?
Hi.
I mine the archives for stories from our shared past that help us understand the weird/scary/but-also-amazing present. Here I'll be posting about the fascinating stuff I’m reading and the historical rabbit holes I (happily) fall into
Hi.
I mine the archives for stories from our shared past that help us understand the weird/scary/but-also-amazing present. Here I'll be posting about the fascinating stuff I’m reading and the historical rabbit holes I (happily) fall into
October 13, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Oh, it would have been polite to introduce myself, huh?
Hi.
I mine the archives for stories from our shared past that help us understand the weird/scary/but-also-amazing present. Here I'll be posting about the fascinating stuff I’m reading and the historical rabbit holes I (happily) fall into
Hi.
I mine the archives for stories from our shared past that help us understand the weird/scary/but-also-amazing present. Here I'll be posting about the fascinating stuff I’m reading and the historical rabbit holes I (happily) fall into
Bringing the wonder-filled world to a new platform:
Find out why Lincoln's bowtie was always crooked, where pink diamonds come from, and how a tank museum became a social media sensation in my regular Atlas Obscura column "Wonder is Everywhere": www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
Find out why Lincoln's bowtie was always crooked, where pink diamonds come from, and how a tank museum became a social media sensation in my regular Atlas Obscura column "Wonder is Everywhere": www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
www.atlasobscura.com
October 2, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Bringing the wonder-filled world to a new platform:
Find out why Lincoln's bowtie was always crooked, where pink diamonds come from, and how a tank museum became a social media sensation in my regular Atlas Obscura column "Wonder is Everywhere": www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...
Find out why Lincoln's bowtie was always crooked, where pink diamonds come from, and how a tank museum became a social media sensation in my regular Atlas Obscura column "Wonder is Everywhere": www.atlasobscura.com/articles/won...