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Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Claim Theodore Roosevelt as Their Own
Our 26th President is lauded as an environmentalist, as well as an empire builder.
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Michael Patrick Cullinane
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Zócalo Public Square
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April 20, 2018
NYC Will Move—But Not Remove—Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Slaves
Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."
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Kimberly Lawson
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Broadly
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April 16, 2018
The NYT Says We’re Forgetting About the Holocaust
History suggests otherwise.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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April 13, 2018
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The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of
An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."
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Benjamin Breen
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April 12, 2018
Why a Woman Who Killed Indians Became Memorialized as the First Female Public Statue
Hannah Duston was used as a national symbol of innocence, valor, and patriotism to justify westward expansion.
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Barbara Cutter
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Zócalo Public Square
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April 9, 2018
Martin Luther King: How a Rebel Leader Was Lost to History
Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?
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Gary Younge
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The Guardian
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April 4, 2018
James Baldwin: ‘I Did Not Want to Weep for Martin, Tears Seemed Futile’
In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.
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Jason Sokol
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Literary Hub
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April 4, 2018
Two Artists in Search of Missing History
A new exhibition makes a powerful statement about the oversights of American history and America’s art history.
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Alicia Ault
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Smithsonian
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April 4, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. was More Radical Than You Think
On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s time to remember who he really was.
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Ben Passmore
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The Nib
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April 4, 2018
Do We Know What History Students Learn?
It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills. It's time to offer evidence.
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Mark M. Smith
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Sam Wineburg
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Joel Breakstone
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Inside Higher Ed
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April 3, 2018
Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?
As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.
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Elizabeth Merritt
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American Alliance of Museums
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April 3, 2018
Forget About It
Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.
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Corey Robin
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Harper’s
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April 1, 2018
Say Goodbye To Your Happy Plantation Narrative
Only a small percentage of historical interpreters are black, and Cheyney McKnight is trying to change that.
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Zoë Beery
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The Outline
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March 28, 2018
How Charles Koch Is Helping Neo-Confederates Teach College Students
The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.
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Alex Kotch
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The Nation
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March 21, 2018
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
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The New Inquiry
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March 21, 2018
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How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie
A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn
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Peter A. Shulman
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Made By History
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March 15, 2018
No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too
The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.
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Liam Hogan
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David M. Perry
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Pacific Standard
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March 15, 2018
Reading the Soil
On the job with a pair of men who dig up bodies for a living.
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Christopher Cox
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Oxford American
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March 13, 2018
Exit Through the Gift Shop
How do museum gift shops at Civil War sites shape historical memory?
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Nick Sacco
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Muster
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March 13, 2018
'The Teacher Would Suddenly Yell "Drop!"'
The duck-and-cover school exercises from the nuclear era are being invoked as a parallel to active shooter drills.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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March 13, 2018
In Winston Churchill, Hollywood Rewards a Mass Murderer
Are a few bombastic speeches really enough to wash the bloodstains off Churchill’s racist hands?
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Shashi Tharoor
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Washington Post
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March 10, 2018
Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins
"Masterless Men" shows how poor whites benefited from slavery's end, but does not diminish the experiences of the enslaved.
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Adrienne Petty
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Black Perspectives
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March 8, 2018
On Statues, History, and Historians
A case study from Texas in how Lost Cause mythology was promoted and reified.
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Rich Heyman
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Process: A Blog for American History
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March 8, 2018
Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians
The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.
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Donald Yacovone
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Medium
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March 6, 2018
Twenty-Four Things You Should Know about Pocahontas
To begin with, her formal name was Amonute.
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Akim Reinhardt
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3 Quarks Daily
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March 5, 2018
Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments
Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.
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William Sturkey
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Black Perspectives
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March 3, 2018
The Quiet Genius of Margalit Fox’s Obituaries
For years, she’s injected subtle, deft works of cultural history into the New York Times.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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March 1, 2018
Men Write History, But Women Live It
The people who make it past 100, who watch the most history unfold, are almost all women.
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Chloe Angyal
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HuffPost
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March 1, 2018
Democrats and Republicans Are Increasingly Divided On the Value of Teaching Black History
Partisanship is much more polarized by racial attitudes than it was 20 years ago.
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Michael Tesler
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Washington Post
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February 28, 2018
Dressmaking Led Elizabeth Keckley From Slavery to the White House
But her memoir caused a rift with Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Nadra Nittle
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Racked
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February 26, 2018
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