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Lightning Struck

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.
by Max Blau via The Bitter Southerner on January 22, 2019
Gettysburg cyclorama building.

Cycloramas: The Virtual Reality of the 19th Century

Immersive displays brought 19th century spectators to far-off places and distant battles. The way they portrayed history, however, was often inaccurate.
by Allison C. Meier, Charles G. Markantes, Michael Cunningham via JSTOR Daily on December 16, 2018

Infrastructures of Memory

It is not just what is remembered that is important, but how it is remembered.
by Brianne M. Wesolowski via Tropics of Meta on December 4, 2018

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on December 1, 2018
Newspaper front-page with headline "When Gen. La Grippe Declares War on the U.S.A."
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Forgotten Flu

A look back at the so-called “Spanish Flu," how it affected the U.S., and why it’s often overlooked today.
via BackStory on November 30, 2018
Cover of Orwell's "1984."

Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

(And what everyone read instead.)
by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on November 27, 2018

Instagram's Aids Memorial: ‘History Does Not Record Itself’

The Instagram feed where friends and family post tributes to loved ones who died of Aids-related illnesses has become an extraordinary compendium of lost lives.
by Kate Kellaway via The Guardian on November 4, 2018

My Grandfather Was Welcomed to Pittsburgh by the Group the Gunman Hated

He came to this country a refugee, and paid his debt forward.
by Amy Weiss-meyer via The Atlantic on October 29, 2018

The Great War’s Great Price

Revisiting the wreckage on the centenary of the armistice.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on October 25, 2018
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Legends and Lore

A roadside marker program in New York State embraces the gray area between official history and local lore.
by Allison C. Meier on October 23, 2018

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
An open book.
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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
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