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painting of a monkey smoking a pipe

Our Strange Addiction

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.
by Benjamin Breen via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 15, 2021
A painting of a slave ship.

New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.
by Gerald Horne via The Nation on February 24, 2021
A pirate ship decorated for the Super Bowl.
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The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is That a Problem?

How brutal outlaws became romanticized.
by Jamie L. H. Goodall via Made by History on February 5, 2021
The ship, Jose Gaspar, in Tampa Bay during the Gasparilla Festival

The True History and Swashbuckling Myth Behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Namesake

Pirates did roam the Gulf Coast, but more myths than facts have inspired the regional folklore.
by Nora McGreevy via Smithsonian on February 4, 2021
Simon Bolívar Crossing the Andes, after a painting by Arayo Gómez, 1857; it is based on Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Democracy’s Demagogues

A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.
by Ferdinand Mount via New York Review of Books on January 14, 2021

The Puritans Are Alright

A review of "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America."
by Ed Simon via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 16, 2020
Engraving of a vaccinated child.

An Eradication: Empire, Enslaved Children, and the Whitewashing of Vaccine History

Enslaved children were used in medical trials for early smallpox vaccines. They have been forgotten.
by Farren E. Yaro via Age of Revolutions on December 7, 2020
Monument of a fist holding a broken shackle

Atlantic Slavery: An Eternal War

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.
by Julia Gaffield via Public Books on November 30, 2020
An illustration of boats in the water.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Economic White Supremacy

On the racial wealth gap.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via The Economic Historian on October 19, 2020

Eric Williams' Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

Reflecting on "Capitalism and Slavery" (1944), a work that continues to influence scholarship today.
by Katie Donington via Black Perspectives on September 21, 2020

The English Were Relative Latecomers to the Americas, Despite the USA's Founding Myth

Until the 1600s, Spain, France and Portugal were much bigger players in the settlement of the New World.
by David Gehring via The Conversation on September 16, 2020

‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives

How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.
by Annelien de Dijn via Made By History on August 25, 2020
Map of Africa

It’s Time for the British Royal Family to Make Amends for Centuries of Profiting From Slavery

An empire built on the backs and blood of enslaved Africans.
by Brooke Newman via Slate on July 28, 2020

Charismatic Models

There is, and always has been, a vanishingly thin line between charismatic democratic rulers and charismatic authoritarians.
by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 26, 2020
A campaign illustration supporting Ulysses S. Grant for the Election of 1868.

A World “Transfixed”: The International Resonance of American Political Crises

The world's eyes are upon America as it struggles with racism and inequality. This is nothing new.
by Brooks Swett via Muster on July 24, 2020
A drawing of corn

Unpacking Winthrop's Boxes

Winthrop's specimens illustrated an alteration of the New World environment and the political economy of New England according to Winthrop's careful designs.
by Matthew Underwood via Commonplace on May 11, 2020

The Long War Against Slavery

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?
by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020

The Contagious Revolution

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.
by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on December 19, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019

Slavery's Explosive Growth, in Charts: How '20 and Odd' Became Millions

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.
via USA Today on August 22, 2019
Map of New England from 1856.

The 400-Year-Old Rivalry

Understanding the rivalry between England and the Netherlands is crucial to understanding that between New England and New York.
by Liz Covart via The Junto on June 26, 2019

Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on May 20, 2019
Enslaved people being baptized.

'Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World'

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."
by Katharine Gerbner, Casey Schmitt via The Junto on April 19, 2019

The Internationalist History of the US Suffrage Movement

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.
by Katherine M. Marino via National Park Service on March 28, 2019

On Ribbon and Revolution: Rethinking Cockades in the Atlantic

Examining the Age of Revolutions through one of its most familiar material markers.
by Ashli White via Age of Revolutions on March 25, 2019
Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter with a student in the 1950s.

Cataloging Black Knowledge

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.
by Zita Cristina Nunes via Perspectives on History on November 20, 2018

Part of the Long History of Child Trafficking: 18th-Century French Louisiana

In the 1720s, French colonial authorities seized children off the streets of Paris and forced them to settle the New World.
by Julia M. Gossard via The Junto on June 27, 2018
Trump glares at Trudeau at the G7 meeting.
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Trump Has Ignored the Worst Chapter of U.S.-Canada Relations

The War of 1812 holds lessons about the costly error of tariffs — not the threat of Canadians.
by Lawrence B. A. Hatter via Made by History on June 14, 2018

Colonialism Did Not Just Create Slavery: It Changed Geology

Researchers suggest effects of the Colonial Era can be detected in rocks or even air.
by Robin McKie via The Guardian on June 10, 2018
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