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Who Were the Americans Who Fought on D-Day?
A new exhibition seeks to understand the young soldiers who came ashore at Normandy.
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Kami Rice
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The Bulwark
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June 6, 2024
The Negro Leagues Are Officially Part of MLB History — With the Records to Prove It
The MLB incorporated the statistics of 2,300 Black athletes who played in the segregated Negro Leagues, making the Josh Gibson its new all-time batting leader.
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Rachel Treisman
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NPR
on
May 29, 2024
Capturing the Civil War
The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world.
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Susanna Ashton
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JSTOR Daily
on
May 23, 2024
The Battle of Blair Mountain and Stories Untold
An interview with Taylor Brown, author of the novel "Rednecks."
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Steve Nathans-Kelly
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Taylor Brown
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Chicago Review of Books
on
May 21, 2024
After a Borderland Shootout, a 100-Year-Old Battle for the Truth
A century after three Tejano men were shot to death, the story their family tells is different than the official account. Whose story counts as Texas history?
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Arelis R. Hernández
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Frank Hulley-Jones
via
Washington Post
on
May 15, 2024
Feeling Blessed
At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.
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Christopher Hooks
via
The Baffler
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May 8, 2024
The Problem With TV's New Holocaust Obsession
From 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' to 'We Were the Lucky Ones,' a new wave of Holocaust dramas feel surprisingly shallow.
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Judy Berman
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TIME
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May 8, 2024
Nell Irvin Painter’s Chronicles of Freedom
A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.
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Elias Rodriques
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The Nation
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May 7, 2024
Decades After Kent State Shooting, the Tragic Legacy Shapes its Activism
The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.
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Jonathan Edwards
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Washington Post
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May 4, 2024
Historical Markers Are Everywhere In America. Some Get History Wrong.
The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
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Laura Sullivan
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Nick McMillan
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NPR
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April 21, 2024
The Columbine-Killers Fan Club
A quarter century on, the school shooters’ mythology has propagated a sprawling subculture that idolizes murder and mayhem.
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Dave Cullen
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The Atlantic
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April 19, 2024
“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin
"I was always working on a theory of America."
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Kathleen Belew
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Richard S. Slotkin
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Public Books
on
April 19, 2024
partner
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms.
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Lightning Jay
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HNN
on
April 10, 2024
Remembering John Hope Franklin, OAH’s First Black President
The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.
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Rob Heinrich
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OUPblog
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April 9, 2024
partner
A 1920s Lesson for the History Textbook Fight
The struggles of a century ago show that historians need to keep explaining their work and role to the public.
by
Bruce W. Dearstyne
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Made By History
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April 8, 2024
partner
History Shows the Danger of Comparing Trump to Jesus
It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.
by
Laura Brodie
via
Made By History
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March 29, 2024
How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins
A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days.
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Frederic J. Frommer
via
Smithsonian
on
March 28, 2024
Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South
The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.
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Doreen St. Félix
via
The New Yorker
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March 25, 2024
Pieces of the Past at the Doctors House: Glendale, California
How one house can contain larger stories of American migration and growth, reckonings with exclusion, and the advent of new technologies.
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Katherine Hobbs
via
Public Books
on
March 21, 2024
Rock-Fuel and Warlike People: On Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion”
Native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.
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Jonah Walters
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 21, 2024
Nicodemus, Kansas: The Last All Black Town in the West
Descendants of the first settlers in Nicodemus are working to preserve and share a story of grit, perseverance, self-governance, and homecomings.
by
Lane Wendell Fischer
via
The Daily Yonder
on
March 20, 2024
Checking out Historical Chicago: Cynthia Pelayo's "Forgotten Sisters"
The SS Eastland disaster and Chicago's ghosts.
by
Elizabeth McNeill
via
Chicago Review of Books
on
March 20, 2024
You Can’t Go Home Again
Our thinking about nostalgia is badly flawed because it relies on defective assumptions about progress and time.
by
Charlie Tyson
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The Hedgehog Review
on
March 19, 2024
Mercy Otis Warren, America’s First Female Historian
At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.
by
Nancy Rubin Stuart
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The Saturday Evening Post
on
March 18, 2024
The Search for Special Case–Baby 1
Who was buried in the lonely grave in New York’s potter’s field? The year-long search led to a lost world in the history of AIDS.
by
Lizzy Ratner
via
The Nation
on
March 12, 2024
A Bullshit Genius
On Walter Isaacson’s biographical project.
by
Oscar Schwartz
via
The Drift
on
March 12, 2024
The Story Wars
The conflict between Red and Blue America is a clash of national mythologies.
by
Richard S. Slotkin
via
The Yale Review
on
March 11, 2024
The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth Goes On
A new television miniseries depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
March 11, 2024
The Annotated Oppenheimer
Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.
by
Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
on
March 7, 2024
Five Centuries Ago, France Came to America
This is the story of Giovanni da Verrazzano, who never reached Asia, but became the first European to set foot on the site of the future city of New York.
by
Diane de Vignemont
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France-Amérique
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March 5, 2024
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