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Painting by Beauford Delaney featuring white outlines of people in front of a red, yellow, orange, and white patterned background.

In Old Wilmington

How the failed search for a silent film uncovered a lost musician of the Harlem Renaissance.

by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Oxford American on September 5, 2023

Portraits of Isabella Graham and Catherine Ferguson

Where Are the Women? Past Choices That Shaped the Historical Record

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.

by Amanda Bowie Moniz via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2023

Burkhard Bilger’s uncle (as a baby) and grandfather, Gernot and Karl Gönner, Aulfingen, Germany, early 1930s.

The Trouble with Ancestry

Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.

by Fintan O’Toole via New York Review of Books on August 31, 2023

Common black rat in nest.

In Colonial Williamsburg, Thieving Rats Save History

Historians owe a debt of gratitude to these furry pilferers.

by Amy Crawford via Atlas Obscura on August 10, 2023

A historical marker for the Broad Street site of domestic slave trade, foregrounding an image of the Exchange Building, located in Charleston, South Carolina.

Activists Have Long Called for Charleston to Confront Its Racial History. Tourists Now Expect It.

Tourist interest is contributing to a more honest telling of the city’s role in the US slave trade. But tensions are flaring as South Carolina lawmakers restrict race-based teachings.

by Jennifer Berry Hawes via ProPublica on July 29, 2023

A collage of a feminine hand using a computer mouse and an eye layered over it as if watching.

Many Revolutions

The internet has expanded how we understand the possibilities of the trans experience.

by Jamie Lauren Keiles, Avery Dame-Griff via The Baffler on July 10, 2023

Map Green Lawn Cemetery.

An Indianapolis Archivist’s Curiosity Revives Historical Truths

A Black cemetery by the site of the former Greenlawn Cemetery in Indianapolis is now a point of contention as the city plans to develop the area.

by Mary Lee Pappas via Arts Midwest on June 29, 2023

Drawing of slave auction

Why Did Governments Compensate Slaveholders for Abolition?

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

by Yesenia Barragan via Zócalo Public Square on June 19, 2023

Lauren Davila, standing in front of a historical marker for slave auctions, in Charleston, South Carolina.

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

by Jennifer Berry Hawes via ProPublica on June 16, 2023

Dave Benscoter smiling in front of a one hundred year old apple tree.

On the Hunt for America’s Forgotten Apples

Apples no one has ever tasted are still out in the wild. Dave Benscoter, a retired FBI agent, has spent a decade searching for these 100-year-old heirlooms.

by Andrew Zaleski via Outside on May 18, 2023

Detail of faces on a family tree.

The Pocahontas Exception: America’s Ancestor Obsession

The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.

by Thomas W. Laqueur via London Review of Books on March 30, 2023

Vince McMahon

Vince McMahon Controls Wrestling History in Order to Control All of Wrestling

How the WWE chairman warped pro wrestling all the way to WrestleMania 39.

by Abraham Josephine Riesman via Polygon on March 27, 2023

Vietnam solider exhibit at the Nixon Library.

The Nixon Library's Vietnam Exhibition Obscures the Truth About the War's End

The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.

by Brian Robertson via HNN on March 19, 2023

White pillars broken in pieces, forming an X.

The Right Side of History

How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?

by Emma Green via The New Yorker on March 7, 2023

Network visualized as a colorful web.

Visualizing Women in Science

A new interactive digital project recovers biographies of women in science, and recreates the social networks that were essential to sustaining their work.

via American Philosophical Society on March 3, 2023

JFK and Jacqueline in the convertible limousine in Dallas.

A Weekend in Dallas

Revisiting political assassinations.

by Noah Kulwin via noahkulwin.substack on November 22, 2022

President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

"What Are They Hiding?"

Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.

by Marc Caputo via NBC News on October 19, 2022

Rob McKuen infront of a background composed of spines of his books.

Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?

He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Then he disappeared.

by Dan Kois via Slate on October 10, 2022

Image of a plant within a circular graph.

America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming

Our food system could have been so different.

by Sarah Laskow via The Atlantic on October 1, 2022

Image of "Nature" journal published in 1904

How "Nature" Contributed To Science’s Discriminatory Legacy

We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.

via Nature on September 28, 2022

Library of Ashurbanipal Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London

Stop Weaponizing History

Right and left are united in a vulgar form of historicism.

by Arjun Appadurai via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 27, 2022

Drawing depicting Buckminster Fuller in front of a dome

Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention

His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image.

by Rebecca Onion via The New Republic on August 19, 2022

Black and white photo of children holding signs about remembrance, at a depot in New York City to greet their parents after a mass strike parade in 1911.

The Building Blocks of History

A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.

by Walker Mimms, Richard Cohen via The Nation on August 17, 2022

Roscoe Lewis sets up to record an interview of formerly enslaved people in Petersburg, Va., as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. (Hampton University Archives)

How Researchers Preserved the Oral Histories of Formerly Enslaved Virginians

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project interviewed 300 formerly enslaved Virginians to share their oral histories.

by David A. Taylor via Washington Post Magazine on July 19, 2022

People marching with anBi, a bisexual organization, carry a bisexual flag in the 43rd Los Angeles Pride Parade on June 9, 2013.

What People Get Wrong About the History of Bisexuality

Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it .

by Julia Shaw via TIME on June 23, 2022

Flooding in Livingston, Montana, with Yellowstone National Park mountains in the background.

What Extreme Flooding in Yellowstone Means for the National Park's Gateway Towns

These communities rely almost entirely on tourism for their existence—yet too much tourism, not to mention climate change, can destroy them.

by Megan Kate Nelson via Smithsonian on June 16, 2022

Ada “Bricktop” Smith (far left) seated at table with other women, the New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1920 – 1929 (Courtesy of the Schomburg Center).

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

Bar chart of different musical genres on a timeline of when they were popular.

A Timeline of African American Music: 1600 to the Present

An interactive visualization of the remarkable diversity of African American music, with essays on the characteristics of each genre and style.

by Portia K. Maultsby via Carnegie Hall on May 25, 2022

Nixon, sitting in front of a Meet the Press backdrop, gestures to someone out of frame as a production crew member adjusts his chair.

The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko

The less known story of Richard Nixon and his genuine love and care for his hometown team, the New York Mets.

by Richard Staff via Defector on May 19, 2022

Horses and carriages in front of funeral home

Report of Action Not Received

An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.

by Stephen Berry via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 11, 2022

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