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We Carry the Burden of Repatriating Our Ancestors
Here’s what it’s like to report on the process as an Indigenous journalist.
by
Mary Hudetz
via
ProPublica
on
August 9, 2023
How Handwriting Lost Its Personality
Penmanship was once considered a window to the soul. The digital age has closed it.
by
Rachel Gutman-Wei
via
The Atlantic
on
July 11, 2023
Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past
With more queer history detectives, what could our future look like?
by
Amelia Possanza
via
Literary Hub
on
May 30, 2023
I Was the First Latina on Sesame Street. Now I Have My Own Ideas About Bringing Representation to TV
"I thought, surely after the success of 'Sesame Street' and my contribution to it, all kinds of Latinx talent would flood the media. Not so."
by
Sonia Manzano
via
HuffPost
on
June 4, 2023
Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy: Cooking for the History Classroom
A cooking assignment helps illuminate the lives of Jewish women in the past for students.
by
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
via
Perspectives on History
on
May 23, 2023
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
How a folklorist encourages people to experience the past and present of a place.
by
Koritha Mitchell
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 30, 2023
Is Writing History Like Solving a Mystery?
Why historians like to think of themselves as detectives.
by
Carolyn Eastman
via
Slate
on
May 21, 2023
Iowa: A Pastor's Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit
A pastor's son reflects on his evangelical father's beliefs regarding politics in the pulpit.
by
Randall Balmer
via
Religion & Politics
on
October 27, 2012
Moses of Cairo (Illinois)
The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.
by
Edward E. Curtis IV
via
Belt Magazine
on
April 23, 2023
“H.H.C.”: The Story of a Queer Life—Glimpsed, Lost, and Finally Found
My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.
by
Aaron Lecklider
via
Slate
on
April 24, 2023
What Is Southern?
A food writer's reminiscences of local cuisine in the springtime.
by
Edna Lewis
via
Gourmet
on
January 1, 2008
The Bathrooms of Old New York
On the enormous, ornate, and extremely impractical bathtub in his family’s old-fashioned brownstone home.
by
Joseph Wyler
via
The New Yorker
on
January 21, 1939
Moral Injuries
Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.
by
Will Selber
via
Bulwark+
on
March 20, 2023
My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg
The man who changed America.
by
Seymour M. Hersh
via
seymourhersh.substack
on
March 8, 2023
A Historian Makes History in Texas
In the 1960s, Annette Gordon-Reed was the first Black child to enroll in a white school in her hometown. Now she reflects on having a new school there named for her.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
The Wall Street Journal
on
February 18, 2023
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50 Years Ago, Anti-Woke Crusaders Came for My Grandfather
Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.
by
Max Jacobs
via
HNN
on
January 15, 2023
A New Flame for Black Fire
What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Ishmael Reed reflects on the transformation and growth of Black arts since the 1960s.
by
Ishmael Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 14, 2023
Remembering the Uvalde Public School Walkout of 1970
During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”
by
Alfredo R. Santos
via
Ibero Aztlan
on
March 19, 2021
Learning and Not Learning Abortion
The fact that most doctors like me don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine in the US.
by
Laura Kolbe
via
n+1
on
November 15, 2022
My Grandmother’s Botched Abortion Transformed Three Generations
Her death was listed as ‘manic depressive psychosis,’ and it sent five of her six children to orphanages.
by
John Turturro
via
Washington Post
on
July 8, 2022
Tarry with Me
Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world.
by
Ashanté M. Reese
via
Oxford American
on
March 23, 2021
American Barn
The traditional wooden barn persists even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.
by
Joshua Mabie
via
Places Journal
on
October 11, 2022
As If I Wasn’t There: Writing from a Child’s Memory
The author confronts the daunting task of writing about her childhood memory, both as a memoirist and a historian.
by
Martha Hodes
via
American Historical Review
on
September 19, 2022
Revisions in Red
A scholar wrestles with the legacy of her grandfather, onetime leader of America’s Communist Party.
by
Laura Browder
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
November 19, 2012
My Civil War
A southerner discovers the inaccuracy of the the myths he grew up with, and slowly comes to terms with his connection to the Civil War.
by
John T. Edge
via
Oxford American
on
April 8, 2014
The Second (and Third) Battle of Lexington
What kind of place was the town I grew up in?
by
Bill McKibben
via
The New Yorker
on
May 1, 2022
We Are a Band of Brothers
Why are so many songs of the Confederacy indelibly inscribed in my Yankee memory?
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
April 9, 2022
The Stories We Give Ourselves
I wish I’d asked my grandfather more questions.
by
Brittany Thomas
via
Contingent
on
August 26, 2022
Black Rain on the Highway of Death
An Iraqi soldier recalls fleeing through hell at the end of the first gulf war.
by
Hussein Adil
via
The Nib
on
September 22, 2019
My Dad and Kurt Cobain
When my father moved to Taiwan, a fax machine and a shared love of music bridged an ocean.
by
Hua Hsu
via
The New Yorker
on
August 15, 2022
Eugene Debs’s Stirring, Never-Before-Published Eulogy to John Brown at Harpers Ferry
In 1908, Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown as America's "greatest liberator," vowing the Socialist Party would continue Brown's work. We publish it here in full.
by
Eugene V. Debs
via
Jacobin
on
October 1, 1908
Cut Me Loose
A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.
by
Joshunda Sanders
via
Oxford American
on
November 19, 2019
Scars and Stripes
Philadelphia gave America its flag, along with other enduring icons of nationhood. But for many, the red, white and blue banner embodies a legacy of injustice.
by
Martha S. Jones
via
Philadelphia Inquirer
on
April 6, 2022
What The Mississippi Delta Teaches Me About Home—And Hope
Finding struggle and resilience on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues.
by
Wright Thompson
via
Fellow Travelers
on
January 6, 2020
Cracking the Code
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees, but genetic testing can provide some clues.
by
Jesmyn Ward
via
The New Yorker
on
May 14, 2015
The Poetics of History from Below
All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.
by
Marcus Rediker
via
Perspectives on History
on
September 1, 2010
I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated
A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.
by
Jean Daniel
via
The New Republic
on
December 7, 1963
Sen. Raphael G. Warnock Remembers How the Police Killing of Amadou Diallo Sparked His Activism
"It didn’t make much sense for us to be talking about justice in the classroom if we weren’t willing to get in the struggle in the streets."
by
Raphael Warnock
via
Literary Hub
on
June 16, 2022
The Buffalo I Knew
The city is at a crossroads. Which path will it take?
by
Ishmael Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 9, 2022
Abortion Is About Freedom, Not Just Privacy
The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.
by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
via
The New Yorker
on
July 6, 2022
“I Called Jane” for a Pre-“Roe” Illegal Abortion
No woman should have to go through what I went through, and no woman should have to overcome barriers to obtain a safe abortion.
by
Carol Chapman
via
The Nation
on
June 29, 2022
Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts
Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.
by
Ashley D. Farmer
,
Tanisha C. Ford
via
Black Perspectives
on
May 31, 2022
The Queer South: Where The Past is Not Past, and The Future is Now
Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.
by
Minnie Bruce Pratt
via
Scalawag
on
January 27, 2020
Watching the Watchers
Confessions of an FBI special agent.
by
Robert Wall
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 27, 1972
My Brother’s Keeper
Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.
by
Ada Ferrer
via
The New Yorker
on
February 18, 2021
The Forgotten Legacy of Boston’s Historic Black Graveyard
At one of Boston’s historical burial grounds, more than 1,000 Black Bostonians were laid to rest in unmarked graves. Their legacy continues to haunt us today.
by
Dart Adams
via
Boston Magazine
on
May 3, 2022
Pimento-cracy
The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
via
Oxford American
on
March 23, 2021
An Ornate Desk, Family History and the Jewish Past
My mother’s desk connected me with our shared heritage.
by
David M. Perry
via
Washington Post
on
April 29, 2022
The Day The Civil-Rights Movement Changed
What my father saw in Mississippi.
by
David Dennis Jr.
via
The Atlantic
on
May 4, 2022
I Argued Roe v. Wade. It Would Be a Tragedy to Overturn It.
To take away the right to privacy is to take a giant step backward in American history.
by
Linda Coffee
via
The New Republic
on
May 4, 2022
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