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Inside the Decades-long Effort to Commemorate a Notorious Waco Lynching
After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.
by
Will Bostwick
via
Texas Monthly
on
February 23, 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
partner
The Battle Over Confederate Heritage Month
A Southern governor proclaimed April Confederate Heritage Month. Will slavery be mentioned?
by
Erin Blakemore
,
Carl R. Weinberg
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 14, 2017
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.
by
Ted Gup
via
Washington Post
on
March 18, 2016
Battle Hymns
Charles Ives and the Civil War.
by
Allen C. Guelzo
via
The American Scholar
on
September 12, 2024
Before Juneteenth
A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations.
by
Susannah J. Ural
,
Ann Marsh Daly
via
The Atlantic
on
June 17, 2024
D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out
Eighty years after D-Day, few know one of its darkest stories: the thousands of civilians killed by a carpet-bombing campaign of little military purpose.
by
Ed Vulliamy
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 10, 2024
Who Were the Americans Who Fought on D-Day?
A new exhibition seeks to understand the young soldiers who came ashore at Normandy.
by
Kami Rice
via
The Bulwark
on
June 6, 2024
Why We Still Use Postage Stamps
The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.
by
Andrea Valdez
via
The Atlantic
on
April 28, 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.
by
Laura Sullivan
,
Nick McMillan
via
NPR
on
April 21, 2024
Overlooking the Past
Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.
by
David Eisenberg
via
Law & Liberty
on
April 15, 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
via
France-Amérique
on
March 5, 2024
Landmarking The Black Panther Party
In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.
by
Zach Mortice
via
CityLab
on
February 24, 2024
How the Tiffany & Co. Founder Cashed In on the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Craze
Charles Lewis Tiffany bought surplus cable from the venture, turning it into souvenirs that forever linked his name to the telecommunications milestone.
by
Robert Klara
via
Smithsonian
on
February 15, 2024
Jews in the Wilderness
One man's role in shaping the nation's best-loved long-distance footpath reminds us of the close bonds that Jews have formed with the North American landscape.
by
Michael Hoberman
via
Tablet
on
January 24, 2024
partner
The Problem With Comparing Today's Activists to MLK
Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.
by
Hajar Yazdiha
via
Made by History
on
January 15, 2024
Fighting to Desegregate the American Calendar
As a versatile but complex hero, King led a life open to interpretation by politicians and activists of all types who fiercely debated his legacy.
by
Daniel T. Fleming
,
Brock Schnoke
via
UNC Press Blog
on
January 15, 2024
How a Die-Hard Confederate General Became a Civil Rights–Supporting Republican
James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
via
Jacobin
on
January 5, 2024
Why the Language We Use to Describe Japanese American Incarceration During World War II Matters
A descendant of concentration camp survivors argues that using the right vocabulary can help clarify the stakes when confronting wartime trauma
by
Tamiko Nimura
via
Smithsonian
on
December 28, 2023
partner
The Boston Tea Party, Top to Bottom
A historian attends the 250th anniversary of the Tea Party, and reflects on the ways Americans remember one of the Revolution's main set pieces.
by
Benjamin L. Carp
via
HNN
on
December 27, 2023
Majority-Black Wilmington, N.C., Fell to White Mob’s Coup 125 Years Ago
The 1898 Wilmington massacre overthrew the elected government in the majority-Black city, killed many Black residents and torched a Black-run newspaper.
by
DeNeen L. Brown
via
Retropolis
on
November 10, 2023
In San Antonio, Remembering More Than the Alamo
Innovators are using digital tools to tell stories of the city’s Black and Latinx history.
by
William Deverell
,
Jessica Kim
,
Elizabeth Logan
,
Stephanie Yi
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
October 12, 2023
Memorializing Racial Terror
An interactive map of lynching markers in the United States.
by
Gianluca de Fazio
via
James Madison University
on
October 5, 2023
150 Years Ago, the US Military Executed Modoc War Leaders in Fort Klamath, Oregon
A small band of Modoc warriors held off hundreds of U.S. soldiers in California. Ultimately, the conflict left the Modoc leaders dead and the tribe divided.
by
Kami Horton
via
Oregon Public Broadcasting
on
October 3, 2023
The Pinochet-Era Debt that the United States Still Hasn’t Settled
Chile’s president was in Washington over the weekend to mark a grim anniversary. Congress is still asking questions about the U.S. role in the 1973 coup.
by
Pablo Manríquez
via
The New Republic
on
September 27, 2023
original
A Gateway to the Past
The Arch in St. Louis stands as a monument to contradictory histories.
by
Ed Ayers
on
September 13, 2023
De-Satch-uration
Louis Armstrong’s complicated relationship with New Orleans.
by
Ricky Riccardi
via
64 Parishes
on
August 31, 2023
Kool Herc and the History (and Mystery) of Hip-Hop's First Day
Even as the world celebrates hip-hop turning 50, the debate over rap's birth date spins on.
by
David Browne
via
Rolling Stone
on
August 11, 2023
Philadelphia Unveils Proposals for New Harriet Tubman Statue
After a year of controversy, the city has narrowed down five options for a monument to the activist and abolitionist.
by
Maya Pontone
via
Hyperallergic
on
August 7, 2023
The True History of 'Custer's Last Stand'
We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
via
Made By History
on
June 25, 2023
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