Karin Wulf

Silence and volume in collections and institutions.

Attribution can make visible the vast infrastructure of research and display how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, it has faciliated.

Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa.

A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.

A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism.

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.

In a new book, historian Nicole Eustace reveals Indigenous calls for meaningful restitution and reconciliation rather than retribution.

A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

A new book details how the young nation regarded its recent and more ancient pasts.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.