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Erick Cedeño on a bicycle and map of a route through the west.

Following the Black Soldiers who Biked Across America

Bikepacking historian Erick Cedeño retraces the Buffalo soldiers' legendary journey from Montana to Missouri to rethink it and its place in American history.
by Logan Watts, Dexter Thomas via Bikepacking on August 3, 2022
Man in American themed boxers, carrying a semiautomatic rifle

How Did Guns Get So Powerful?

Decade by decade, firearms have become deadlier—and tightened their grip on our collective imagination.
by Phil Klay via The New Yorker on June 11, 2022
US military pilots operating Predator drones from the ground control station.

The Forgotten Crime of War Itself

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on March 31, 2022
Photo of Sitting Bull with an aerial view of the Yellowstone Basin in the background.

How Sitting Bull's Fight for Indigenous Land Rights Shaped the Creation of Yellowstone National Park

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty.
by Megan Kate Nelson via Smithsonian on March 1, 2022
Photograph of Sam Chamberlain

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.
by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 9, 2022
Company of African American soldiers, 1865.

The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

The inequitable dismissal of US soldiers following the conclusion of the Civil War.
by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. via Black Perspectives on February 2, 2022
Cover of Moyne's book, with the subtitle "How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War," in front of a desert landscape.

Not Humane, Just Invisible

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.
by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 3, 2021
Fort Huachuca in 1894.

The American Maginot Line (Pt. 2)

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”
by Alex Aviña via Foreign Exchanges on September 27, 2021
Drawing of the Alamo

How Racism, American Idealism, and Patriotism Created the Modern Myth of the Alamo and Davy Crockett

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford on the making of a misrepresented narrative.
by Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough via Literary Hub on June 22, 2021
Puritans watching a May Day celebration.

The Pilgrims' Attack on a May Day Celebration Was a Dress Rehearsal for Removing Native Americans

The Puritans had little tolerance for those who didn't conform to their vision of the world.
by Peter C. Mancall via The Conversation on April 29, 2021
Purple and yellow illustration of Lower Manhattan skyline, with letters of "Manahata" as buildings.

How New York Was Named

For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via The New Yorker on April 13, 2021
White Sands National Park on a sunny day.

The Lure of the White Sands

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.
by Rich Cohen via New York Review of Books on March 29, 2021
Nurse Harriet Curley takes the pulse of a patient at Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Indian reservation in 1949. (AP)

How Native Americans Were Vaccinated Against Smallpox, Then Pushed Off Their Land

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.
by Dana Hedgpeth via Washington Post on March 28, 2021
1886 British Empire Map

Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.
by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 16, 2021
Picture of the Ingalls family from the TV Series, "Little House on the Prairie."

Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Big Woke Woods

A recent documentary reminds us of her family’s strength and our own weakness.
by Jonathon Van Maren via The American Conservative on February 26, 2021
Mountains in California.

The Lost Rivers of Owens Valley

Water—who owns it, who uses it—has shaped this landscape from the Paiutes’ irrigation canals to the Los Angeles aqueduct.
by Frederic Wehrey via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2021
Picture of Devil's Tower

Historical Monuments of the First People

A Story Map that highlights events, sites, and people important to Native American history.
by Caitlinn Grimm via Library of Congress on February 8, 2021
One of Yellowstone's infamous hot springs.

The Lost History of Yellowstone

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
by Richard Grant via Smithsonian on January 5, 2021

What Tecumseh Fought For

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.
by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on October 26, 2020
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference in Austin
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Though Often Mythologized, the Texas Rangers Have an Ugly History of Brutality

Teaching accurate history about white supremacy may be painful, but it's essential.
by Jonathan S. Jones via Made By History on September 21, 2020

The Stench of Colonialism Mars These Bird Names. They Must Be Changed.

Having a species named after you is an honor. Not everyone deserves it.
by Gabriel Foley, Jordan Rutter via Washington Post on August 4, 2020
Captain Medorem Crawford pictured with his brother, LeRoy, who he employed as his assistant on the Emigrant Escort Service expeditions in 1862-4

A White Man’s Empire

The United Stated Emigrant Escort Service and settler colonialism during the Civil War.
by Stefanie Greenhill via Muster on July 28, 2020

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020
An image of Columbus, Ohio's statue of Christopher Columbus.

The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio

Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”
by Hanif Abdurraqib via The New Yorker on June 24, 2020
Deserted farm road through corn fields.

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020

American Torture

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via Aeon on February 20, 2020

No Man’s Land

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 10, 2019
Gold coins and jewelry spilling out of a chest.

The Pirate as Conquistador: Plunder and Politics in the Making of the British Empire

As the British Empire's power expanded, piracy became criminalized.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Arcade on May 6, 2019

The Myth of the American Frontier

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Nation on April 1, 2019

When The President Laughs At Genocide

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.
by Michael E. Carter via Tropics of Meta on February 10, 2019
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