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Was Declaring Independence Even Important?

Reflections on the latest public debate between historians about the causes of the American Revolution.

by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on September 15, 2021

A courtroom gavel placed in front of an open book and justice scale.

History Won’t Judge

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

by Kirsten Weld via The Baffler on September 7, 2021

Sign reading "Whatever you're not changing you are choosing"

"The Culture Wars— They’re Back!"

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.

by Laura Ansley via Perspectives on History on August 11, 2021

1890s American schoolboys

American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is a refusal to acknowledge that American schools have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

by Anthony Conwright via The New Republic on July 29, 2021

Cover of TIME magazine featuring a redacted textbook and the title "The History Wars"

Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 16, 2021

Tucker Carlson wearing a t-shirt with a photograph of Abraham Lincoln on it.

The Right May Be Giving Up the “Lost Cause,” but What’s Next Could Be Worse

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

by Rebecca Onion, Matthew Karp via Slate on June 25, 2021

Cartoon depiction of a confederate statue, its hat falling off as it is lifted off a pedestal covered in graffiti about love and justice

After the Lost Cause

Why are politics so consumed with the past?

by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on June 24, 2021

Jennifer L. Morgan portrayed beside her book

Black Feminist in Public: Jennifer L. Morgan Reckons with Slavery

On the intersectionality of enslaved women and common misunderstandings about slavery.

by Janell Hobson, Jennifer L. Morgan via Ms. Magazine on June 17, 2021

Tulsa after race massacre

The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”

Most Black Tulsans in 1921 were working class. But these days, it seems like the fate of those few blocks in and around “Black Wall Street” is all that matters.

by Robin D. G. Kelley, George Yancy via Truthout on June 1, 2021

Image of a red elephant with text from the 1619 Project overlaid on it, against a black background.

Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 21, 2021

The word slavery in a dictionary crossed out

We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

by Michael Harriot via The Root on May 6, 2021

Daryl Michael Scott.

"Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth"

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

by Daryl Michael Scott, Len Gutkin via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10, 2021

The 1619 Project is Wrong on the 1965 Immigration Act

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the credit for ending quotas to civil rights reformers. The truth is a bit more complicated.

by Zaid Jilani via The American Conservative on September 21, 2020

What Trump Is Missing About American History

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

by Leslie M. Harris, Karin Wulf via Politico Magazine on September 20, 2020

Trump Calls for More Patriotic Education

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.

by Laura Meckler, Moriah Balingit via Retropolis on September 17, 2020

A political cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln animalistically, playing cards on top of a keg of gunpowder.

The 1619 Project and the ‘Anti-Lincoln Tradition’

The Great Emancipator's character and anti-slavery legacy has been questioned by Black Americans for over a century.

by E. James West via Black Perspectives on August 11, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776

The United States didn't begin in 1619.

by Wilfred Reilly via Quillette on February 17, 2020

The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.

by Joseph M. Adelman via The Junto on January 23, 2020

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on January 20, 2020

Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a 'Glorious Liberty Document.'

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

by Timothy Sandefur via Reason on August 21, 2019

A Brief History of the History Wars

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 20, 2019

A crowd at a Trump rally, holding signs and flags endorsing him, as well as a Confederate flag.

Trump Is Not an Aberration

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

by Jeffrey C. Isaac via New Lines Magazine on November 12, 2024

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Popular History

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

by Scott Spillman via The Point on September 29, 2024

“In the White Interest”

Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it.

by Timothy Messer-Kruse via HNN on September 18, 2024

Protestors and counter-protestors face off holding flags and posters.

Two Americas?

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

by Nicholas Misukanis via Commonweal on August 6, 2024

Alexandria Park School in Sydney, Australia, is built on Aboriginal land.

Overlooking the Past

Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.

by David Eisenberg via Law & Liberty on April 15, 2024

"Soulsville" mural in Memphis, Tennessee.

Capitalism and (Under)Development in the American South

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Aeon on April 2, 2024

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A Panoramic View of the West

A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.

by Bradley J. Birzer via Law & Liberty on December 13, 2023

Africa, the Center of History

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

by Adom Getachew via New York Review of Books on July 27, 2023

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