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Slavery and Freedom
Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.
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Eric Foner
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Thavolia Glymph
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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Walter Johnson
via
YouTube
on
May 20, 2016
Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.
An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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Richard Kreitner
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Peter S. Onuf
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Boston Review
on
May 19, 2016
Andrew Jackson was A Slaver, Ethnic Cleanser, and Tyrant
Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.
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Dylan Matthews
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Vox
on
April 20, 2016
Forget Hamilton, Burr Is the Real Hero
We can learn more from him in today's political world.
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Carey Wallace
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TIME
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April 14, 2016
By Retiring a Seal, Harvard Wages War on the Dead — but to What End?
Rather than censuring the legacies of our ancestors, we should work to make our descendants proud.
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Ted Gup
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Washington Post
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March 18, 2016
The History of National Women's History Month
The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.
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Julia Zorthian
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TIME
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February 29, 2016
Witness to Tragedy: The Sinking of the General Slocum
“Terrible, terrible! A thousand casualties. And heartrending scenes. Men trampling down women and children. Most brutal thing…” — James Joyce, Ulysses
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Ted Houghtaling
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New-York Historical Society
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February 24, 2016
The Birth of the Ku Klux Brand
A new book re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.
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Malcolm Harris
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Pacific Standard
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February 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School
How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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January 26, 2016
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Invisible Cities, Continued
The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."
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BackStory
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January 22, 2016
America's Other Original Sin
Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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January 18, 2016
Is History Written About Men, by Men?
A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.
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Andrew Kahn
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
January 6, 2016
Toward a Usable Black History
It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
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John McWhorter
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City Journal
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December 23, 2015
Come On, Lilgrim
The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.
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Jonathan Beecher Field
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Commonplace
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December 16, 2015
The Crumbling Monuments of the Age of Marble
The 20th century produced monuments to a false consensus—can the 21st century create a more representative commemorative sphere?
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Mason B. Williams
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The Atlantic
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December 6, 2015
Names in the Ivy League
The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.
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Joshua Rothman
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The New Yorker
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November 26, 2015
Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson
It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
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Greg Grandin
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The Nation
on
November 24, 2015
A Lakota Sioux Warrior's Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn
The role of Red Horse's drawings in the historical narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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Allison C. Meier
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Hyperallergic
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November 20, 2015
Don’t Repress the Past
Another way to look at controversial historical figures.
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James Livingston
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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November 20, 2015
What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II
On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.
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Ishaan Tharoor
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Washington Post
on
November 17, 2015
Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears
America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South
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Edward Ball
via
Smithsonian
on
November 1, 2015
Columbus Day Is the Most Important Day of Every Year
Acknowledging the truth about colonialism is crucial if we want to comprehend the world around us today.
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Jon Schwarz
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The Intercept
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October 12, 2015
How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea
Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.
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Natalie Shure
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BuzzFeed News
on
October 11, 2015
America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American 'Repatriation'
During the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were deported. Author Francisco Balderrama says that most were American citizens.
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NPR
on
September 10, 2015
The Split Personality of Ken Burns’s “The Civil War”
The documentary's accommodation of the Lost Cause narrative may have left viewers with a skewed understanding of the conflict.
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Kevin M. Levin
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Civil War Memory
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August 31, 2015
Why America Needs a Slavery Museum
A wealthy white lawyer has spent 16 years and millions of dollars turning the Whitney Plantation into a memorial to the nation's past.
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Paul Rosenfeld
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The Atlantic
on
August 25, 2015
Don’t Tear Down Confederate Monuments – Do This Instead
Why eliminate street names that tell one part of Southern history when we can amplify them to tell even more of it?
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Jack Hitt
via
Reuters
on
July 23, 2015
What Was the Confederate Flag Doing in Cuba, Vietnam, and Iraq?
The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
July 7, 2015
3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake
Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
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Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
July 2, 2015
“Richmond Reoccupied by Men Who Wore the Gray”
In 1890, the former Confederate capital erected a monument to Robert E. Lee-and reasserted white supremacy.
by
Maurie D. McInnis
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Slate
on
July 1, 2015
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