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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

Defenders Of Confederate Monuments Keep Trying To Erase History

Claims that the Confederacy didn't fight to uphold slavery are disputed by Confederate generals themselves.
by Adam H. Domby via HuffPost on September 15, 2017

Ken Burns's American Canon

Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in.
by Ian Parker via The New Yorker on September 4, 2017

American Sphinx

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.
by Colin Dickey via Longreads on August 31, 2017

Coal No Longer Fuels America. But the Legacy — and the Myth — Remain.

Coal country still clings to the industry that was long its chief source of revenue and a way of life.
by Karen Heller via Retropolis on July 9, 2017
Historian Timothy Naftali being interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on television.

Why (Some) Historians Should Be Pundits

The question isn’t whether they have anything of value to offer. It’s whether they can avoid partisan vituperation along the way.
by Julian E. Zelizer, Morton Keller via The Atlantic on June 26, 2017

Confederate or Not, Which Monuments Should Stay or Go? We Asked, You Answered.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.
via Washington Post on June 6, 2017

I Don't Care How Good His Paintings Are, He Still Belongs in Prison

George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on April 19, 2017

Rosa Parks and the Power of Oneness

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.
by Peter Feuerherd, Barry Schwartz via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2016
The Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching reenactment.

A Lynching in Georgia: The Living Memorial to America’s History of Racist Violence

Activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.
by Peter C. Baker via The Guardian on November 2, 2016

The Real Story Behind "Johnny Appleseed"

Johnny Appleseed was based on a real person, John Chapman, who was eccentric enough without the legends.
by Matthew Wills, William Kerrigan via JSTOR Daily on October 22, 2016

Claudette Colvin: 'A Teenage Rosa Parks'

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
by Radio Diaries via Radio Diaries on March 2, 2016
Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015
Pixelated image of ancient ruins with columns

Raiders of the Lost Web

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.
by Adrienne LaFrance via The Atlantic on October 14, 2015
Lyndon Johnson looking unimpressed with what Martin Luther King Jr. is saying.

Feeling Versus Fact: Reconciling Ava DuVernay’s Retelling of Selma

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.
by Daniel Judt via The Politic on March 28, 2015
Server for the Internet Archive.

Can the Internet be Archived?

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 26, 2015
Moore's Ford Lynching historical marker.
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Georgia On Our Mind

The story of a group of people who get together each year to reenact the notorious 1946 Moore’s Ford lynching in Georgia.
via BackStory on March 1, 2013
A frame from Zapruder's film.

The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made

For many of us, especially those who weren’t alive when it happened, we’re all watching that event through Zapruder’s lens.
by Alex Pasternack via Vice on November 12, 2012
Library card catalog card reading "Forgetfulness: see memory."

Historical Amnesias: An Interview with Paul Connerton

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
by Paul Connerton, Sina Najafi, Jeffery Kastner via Cabinet on June 30, 2011
Painting representing the Great Migration: African Americans going through gates to Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.

The Changing Definition of African-American

How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American.
by Ira Berlin via Smithsonian on February 1, 2010
Image of a father and child walking on a beach.

Mythologizing Fatherhood

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.
by Ralph LaRossa via National Council On Family Relations on March 1, 2009
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