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Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’
For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.
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Brentin Mock
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CityLab
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July 4, 2018
Beyond the Middle Passage
Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.
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Robert Pollie
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Inqury @ UC Santa Cruz
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July 1, 2018
This Innovative Memorial Will Soon Honor Native American Veterans
The National Museum of the American Indian has reached a final decision on which design to implement.
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Ryan K. Smith
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Smithsonian
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June 26, 2018
Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)
Why it's important to know that Marsha P. Johnson did not start the riots at Stonewall.
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R. E. Fulton
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Nursing Clio
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June 26, 2018
Librarians without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder
A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.
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Dedra McDonald Birzer
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National Review
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June 26, 2018
Where Does the War on History End?
Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.
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Tony Parsons
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British GQ
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June 21, 2018
Well-Behaved Women Make History Too
What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?
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Joanna Scutts
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Slate
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June 21, 2018
Jefferson’s Monticello Finally Gives Sally Hemings Her Place in Presidential History
New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.
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Philip Kennicott
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Washington Post
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June 13, 2018
America's National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched
Montana's emblematic Glacier National Park reveals the impact of human history and culture.
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Adam M. Sowards
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Zócalo Public Square
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June 11, 2018
When, How Did the First Americans Arrive? It’s Complicated.
The first Americans weren't one group of people; they arrived at different times, and likely by different methods.
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Simon Worrall
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National Geographic
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June 9, 2018
Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77
He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”
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Harrison Smith
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Washington Post
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June 6, 2018
Can History Avoid Conspiracy?
Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
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Andy Seal
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
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June 4, 2018
Meet The Last Surviving Witness to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Olivia Hooker was 6 at the time of the riot, considered to be one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
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Nellie Gilles
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NPR
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May 31, 2018
The Persistence of Whitewashing
How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?
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Jason Silverstein
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The New Republic
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May 31, 2018
Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero
With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.
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Mitch Kachun
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Stephen G. Hall
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Black Perspectives
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May 30, 2018
Washington and Lee Confronts Its History
When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated.
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Scott Jaschik
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Inside Higher Ed
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May 29, 2018
The Fading Battlefields of World War I
A collection of photographs that show nature retaking the battle-ravaged land along the Great War's Western Front.
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Alan Taylor
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The Atlantic
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May 28, 2018
New Memorial Day: Remembering Children Killed in School
It’s an exhaustive list. Far longer and deeper than you might suspect.
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Akim Reinhardt
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3 Quarks Daily
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May 28, 2018
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How A Child Born More Than 400 Years Ago Became A Symbol of White Nationalism
Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.
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Andrew Lawler
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Made By History
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May 24, 2018
Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War
The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
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May 15, 2018
The Liberal Delusion of #ResistanceGenealogy
The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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May 15, 2018
Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is Racially Insensitive — But We Should Still Read It
Librarians are once again raising concerns over the book’s depiction of Native Americans.
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Caroline Fraser
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Washington Post
on
May 13, 2018
Is Technology Bringing History to Life or Distorting It?
History is coming to life, and scholars are debating the merits of this wave of re-creation and manipulation.
by
Steve Hendrix
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Retropolis
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May 10, 2018
What Happens When We Forget?
A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.
by
Lance Warren
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Facing South
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May 7, 2018
Contraband Flesh
A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."
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Autumn Womack
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The Paris Review
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May 7, 2018
The Role of Water in African American History
Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?
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Tyler D. Parry
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Black Perspectives
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May 4, 2018
Kanye’s Brand of “Freethinking” Has a Long, Awful History
His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
May 2, 2018
What is Trans History?
From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.
by
Kritika Agarwal
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Perspectives on History
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May 2, 2018
The Last Slave
In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Nick Tabor
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Vulture
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April 29, 2018
How American Racism Influenced Hitler
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
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Alex Ross
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The New Yorker
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April 25, 2018
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