Rebecca Onion

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?

An exercise in understatement that would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

How Depression-Era racial dynamics may have shaped our understanding of antebellum enslaved life.

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?

Was bringing home an Indian boy-after slaughtering his family-an act of compassion or of political expedience?

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."

Despite a fractured party and health concerns, FDR capitalized on name recognition to win the 1932 presidential election.

Uncovering black newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries can open up new possibilities for teaching African American history.

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.

A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

In 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.

Wildly popular accounts like @HistoryInPics are bad for history, bad for Twitter, and bad for you.

Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.