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Shopping for Racial Justice, Then and Now

Using one’s buying power to support causes one believes in and to effect change is not new.

by Bronwen Everill via Harvard University Press Blog on June 18, 2020

A drawing of two diamonds

Last Pole

The author goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.

by Julian Chehirian via The Public Domain Review on May 27, 2020

Ye Olde Morality-Enforcement Brigades

The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.

by Matthew Wills, Bryan D. Palmer via JSTOR Daily on May 20, 2020

“Infection Unperceiv’d, in Many a Place”: The London Plague of 1625, Viewed From Plymouth Rock

In 1625, New England’s “hideous and desolate” isolation suddenly began to seem a God-given blessing in disguise.

by Peter H. Wood via We're History on April 15, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020

Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.

by Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling via Past & Present on February 4, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

Travels through Virginia. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White. Depicting American Indians dancing.

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 via JSTOR Daily on December 4, 2019

How Right-Wing Talking Points Distort the History of Slavery

As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

by Tyler D. Parry via Made by History on June 25, 2019

Network Visualisations Show What We Can and What We May Know

On the intellectual history of the lines and arrows that have become a standard feature of the news media.

by Christopher Warren via Aeon on June 18, 2018

The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.

by Laurent Dubois, Rocky Cotard via The Nib on February 5, 2018

A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric

by Thomas S. Kidd via Age of Revolutions on June 5, 2017

Mapping a Demon Malady: Cholera Maps and Affect in 1832

Cholera maps chart the movement of the disease, and the terror that accompanied it.

by Sarah Schuetze via Commonplace on September 25, 2016

A reenactment of a Revolutionary War battle.

Placing the American Revolution in Global Perspective

Pincus questions how and why the American Revolution was successful in contrast to other revolutions during the same time period.

by Steven Pincus via Age of Revolutions on June 20, 2016

Is Corned Beef Really Irish?

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal.

by Shaylyn Esposito via Smithsonian on March 15, 2013

Flora and Femininity: Gender and Botany in Early America

Embroidered orchards and peony hair ornaments testify that women were practitioners of floral display, but many women sought knowledge as well as style.

by Susan Branson via Commonplace on January 1, 2012

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