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The Fascinating Story of the Texas Archives War of 1842

The battle over where the papers of the Republic of Texas should reside reminds us of the politics of historical memory.
by Sheila McClear via Smithsonian on October 9, 2018
Railway strike of 1886.

Why Strikes Matter

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.
by Erik Loomis via Literary Hub on October 3, 2018

America’s Missing Labor Party

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by David Sessions via The New Republic on October 2, 2018

The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.
by Carlos Kevin Blanton via Texas Monthly on September 21, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

“A More Beautiful and Terrible History” Corrects the Fables Told of the Civil Rights Movement

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeneé Darden via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 16, 2018

Humans Are Destroying Animals’ Ancestral Knowledge

Bighorn sheep and moose learn to migrate from one another. When they die, that generational know-how is not easily replaced.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic on September 6, 2018

The View from Cottage Hill

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.
by Siddhartha Mitter via Popula on August 23, 2018

Remembrance of War as Warning

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?
by Christopher Preble via War on the Rocks on August 13, 2018
Map of world happiness.

Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds.
by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on July 23, 2018

The Lesson of the Great War

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.
by Eliot A. Cohen via The Atlantic on July 9, 2018
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The Train at Wood's Crossing

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.
by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on June 17, 2018
Cover of "First Martyr of Liberty," featuring a painting of Crispus Attucks facing a British soldier with a bayonet.

Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.
by Mitch Kachun, Stephen G. Hall via Black Perspectives on May 30, 2018

Real Museums of Memphis

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.
by Zandria Felice Robinson via Scalawag on April 12, 2018

Writing Jewish History

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.
by Adam Kirsch via The New Yorker on March 26, 2018
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Periodicals Are Reassessing Their Pasts. It’s Time for Publishers to Do the Same

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.
by Yuliya Komska via Made By History on March 22, 2018

Our Nukes, Ourselves

Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town.
by Kelsey D. Atherton via The New Inquiry on March 21, 2018

The Quiet Genius of Margalit Fox’s Obituaries

For years, she’s injected subtle, deft works of cultural history into the New York Times.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 1, 2018
Still from Dirty Dancing.

In the Dark All Katz Are Grey: Notes on Jewish Nostalgia

Searching for where I belong, I find myself cobbling together a mongrel Judaism—half-remembered and contradictory and all mine.
by Samuel Ashworth via Hazlitt on February 23, 2018

How One Amateur Historian Brought Us the Stories of African-Americans Who Knew Abraham Lincoln

Once John E. Washington started to dig, he found an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge about the 16th president.
by Kate Masur via Smithsonian on February 20, 2018
collage of disappeared webpages

The Internet Isn't Forever

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
by Maria Bustillos via Columbia Journalism Review on February 20, 2018

Abraham Lincoln's Secret Visits to Slaves

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free. 
by Bill Black via The Atlantic on February 12, 2018
A painting of George Washington.

What Is Presidents’ Day Actually About?

For most of American history, Washington's Birthday was a really big deal, but that’s changed a lot since the middle of the twentieth century.
by Livia Gershon, Barry Schwartz via JSTOR Daily on February 3, 2018

Seeing Martin Luther King as a Human Being

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on January 15, 2018
Drawing of soldiers in combat uniforms.

The Good War

How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
by Mike Dawson via The Nib on January 10, 2018

Hating on Herbert Hoover

Hoover was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an effective humanitarian. Why do we remember him as a failure?
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on October 23, 2017
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017

Was the Declaration of Independence Signed on July 4?

How memory plays tricks with history.
by Ray Raphael via Journal of the American Revolution on October 10, 2017

What’s So Bad About Ken Burns?

The modern historical profession's purpose has changed drastically in the past century.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 3, 2017

How One College Succeeded at Grappling With a Racist Past

Comparing the methods of Oxford University in the U.K. with those of the University of Mississippi shows there’s much to learn.
by Timothy W. Ryback via The Atlantic on September 19, 2017
Two American soldiers in Pleiku, South Vietnam, home to an American airbase in May 1967.

Studying the Vietnam War

How the scholarship has changed.
by Mark Atwood Lawrence via Humanities on September 16, 2017
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