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The Construction of America, in the Eyes of the English
In Theodor de Bry’s illustrations for "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," the Algonquin are made to look like the Irish. Surprise.
by
Ed Simon
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JSTOR Daily
on
December 4, 2019
George Washington Williams’ "History of the Negro Race in America" (1882–83)
A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian.
by
Dorothy Berry
via
The Public Domain Review
on
September 12, 2023
Black America, 1895
The bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.
by
Dorothy Berry
via
The Public Domain Review
on
February 24, 2021
Phrenology Is Here to Stay
“Pseudoscience,” race, and American politics.
by
Courtney E. Thompson
via
Medium
on
February 11, 2021
The Defender of Differences
Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."
by
Kwame Anthony Appiah
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 14, 2020
The Haunting of Drums and Shadows
On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.
by
Sam Worley
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
May 11, 2020
Government Song Women
The Resettlement Administration was one of the New Deal’s most radical, far-reaching, and highly criticized programs, and it lasted just two years.
by
Sheryl Kaskowitz
via
Humanities
on
May 1, 2020
How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity
A brave band of scholars set out to save us from racism and sexism. What happened?
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
August 29, 2019
Back to the Women’s Land
A new book looks at four different experiments in feminist separatism.
by
Daphne Spain
via
Public Books
on
January 11, 2019
Contraband Flesh
A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."
by
Autumn Womack
via
The Paris Review
on
May 7, 2018
The Last Slave
In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.
by
Zora Neale Hurston
,
Nick Tabor
via
Vulture
on
April 29, 2018
Why Are All the Con Artists White?
The history of the black con artist has been forgotten.
by
Shane White
via
Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
on
April 23, 2018
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Excremental Empire
John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.
by
Benjamin Breen
on
September 8, 2017
Painting the New World
Benjamin Breen examines the importance of John White's sketches of the Algonkin people and the art's relation to the Lost Colony.
by
Benjamin Breen
via
The Public Domain Review
on
April 24, 2012
Eroticize the Hood
A new book revamps Newark's reputation as unsexy, violent, destitute, defiantly declaring it “a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.”
by
José Sanchez
via
n+1
on
October 8, 2024
A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings
In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.
by
John Yau
via
Hyperallergic
on
February 21, 2024
Black Success, White Backlash
Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.
by
Elijah Anderson
via
The Atlantic
on
October 16, 2023
How WPA State Guides Fused the Essential and the Eccentric
Touring the American soul.
by
Scott Borchert
via
Humanities
on
October 11, 2023
Slanting the History of Handwriting
Whatever writing is today, it is not self-evident. But writing by hand did not simply continue to “advance” until it inevitably began to erode.
by
Sonja Drimmer
via
Public Books
on
August 9, 2023
When Did Racism Begin?
The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.
by
Vanita Seth
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
August 19, 2022
Is Colorado Home to an Ancient Astronomical Observatory? The Question Is Testing Archaeological Limits.
Did Ancestral Puebloans watch the skies from Mesa Verde's Sun Temple? Solving its mysteries requires overcoming archaeology’s troubled past.
by
David Gilbert
via
The Colorado Sun
on
December 19, 2021
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2021
Social Science as a Tool for Surveillance in World War II Japanese American Concentration Camps
Edward Spicer's writings indicate an awareness of the deeply unjust circumstances that Japanese Americans found themselves in within Japanese internment camps.
by
Natasha Varner
via
University Of Arizona Press
on
July 2, 2021
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.
by
Laine Nooney
via
Vice
on
March 12, 2021
The Prophet of Maximum Productivity
Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.
by
Kwame Anthony Appiah
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 3, 2021
The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
How scientific thought informed colonization and religious conversion during the Age of Discovery.
by
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
via
Not Even Past
on
September 22, 2020
Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence?
A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.
by
Thomas A. Foster
via
Public Seminar
on
September 10, 2020
It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump
Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."
by
Samuel G. Freedman
via
Literary Hub
on
January 30, 2020
Goodbye to Good Earth
A Louisiana tribe’s long fight against the American tide.
by
Boyce Upholt
via
Oxford American
on
September 3, 2019
How Henrietta Schmerler Was Lost, Then Found
Women anthropologists, face assault in the field, exposing victim blaming, institutional failures, and ethical gaps in academia.
by
Nell Gluckman
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
October 14, 2018
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