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Richard Nixon giving a speech

Why We’re Still Obsessed With Watergate

The reasons that Nixon’s scandal endures when other presidents’ disgraces have not.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on June 19, 2022
Arlen Parsa's Painting, Declaration of Independence Revisited (2019), the famous painting of the signing but with red dots over the faces of slaveholders.

How to Decolonize the Capitol

Art historians, legislators, and activists have long decried themes of white supremacy in the art collection of the U.S. Capitol. Can this place be decolonized?
by Marisa Angell Brown via Places Journal on June 14, 2022
Wilma Mankiller on a quarter

Reconsidering Wilma Mankiller

As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
by Alaina E. Roberts via High Country News on June 6, 2022
Alberta Hunter Performing at U.S.O show

Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
by K. T. Ewing via Black Perspectives on June 2, 2022
An aerial view of a firebombed area in Tokyo in 1945.

When Tokyo Burned

“Paper City” explores the forgotten firebombing of Japan’s capital.
by Spencer Cohen via Foreign Policy on May 29, 2022
Memorial to cancer patients of the Radiation Effects Study, 1960-1972

Radiation, Race, and Recognition

Accountability is crucial as we remember the individuals and communities harmed by our institutions and call for retroactive justice.
by Divya Kumar via Nursing Clio on May 26, 2022
Records of mass anti-Asian violence.

Remembering a Victim of an Anti-Asian Attack, 150 Years Later

Gene Tong, a popular herbal-medicine doctor in Los Angeles, was hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in American history.
by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on May 11, 2022
Two giant pandas eating bamboo

A Chinese Cigarette Tin Launched D.C.’s 50-year Love Affair With Pandas

Fifty years ago, first lady Pat Nixon admired a tin of Chinese cigarettes. Then China sent the U.S. a pair of giant pandas.
by Michael E. Ruane via Retropolis on March 16, 2022
Mural of Harriet Tubman in Cambridge, Maryland, by Michael Rosato

Harriet Tubman Is Famous As An Abolitionist and Political Activist, but She Was Also A Naturalist

The Underground Railroad conductor's understanding of botany, wildlife biology, geography and astronomy allowed her to guide herself and others to safety.
by Liza Weisstuch via Smithsonian Magazine on March 10, 2022
International Women's Day marchers in San Antonio hold signs celebrating Emma Tenayuca.

The Militant Passion of Emma Tenayuca

84 years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble.
by Kim Kelly via The Nation on February 1, 2022
Colorful portrait collage of Harriet Tubman with stars in the background

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project explores the meaning of freedom through the example of one extraordinary life.
by Janell Hobson via Ms. Magazine on February 1, 2022
Chart of when Confederate monuments and namings occurred, with peaks in the 1910s and the 1960s.

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy

A Southern Poverty Law Center study identified over 1,500 publicly-displayed symbols of the Confederacy in the South and beyond.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on February 1, 2022
Collage of a contemporary man encircled by layers of an old map, looking at 19th-century men walking past him.

Those Who Know

On Raoul Peck's "Exterminate all the Brutes" and the limits of rewriting the narrative.
by Nick Martin via The Drift on January 27, 2022
Collage of nature images and transcendentalists' faces, with flowers in Emerson's eyes.

Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?
by Sarah Blackwood via The New Republic on January 6, 2022
Screen capture of Martin Luther King Jr. giving a press conference.

What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About the Filibuster: ‘A Minority of Misguided Senators’

The context in which King shared his views on the filibuster is the same one in which the Senate now finds itself: amid battles over voting rights legislation.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on January 4, 2022
Black-and-white image of two men behind bar

The Gilded Age In a Glass: From Innovation to Prohibition

Cocktails — the ingredients, the stories, the pageantry — can reveal more than expected about the Gilded Age.
by Zachary Veith via The Gotham Center on December 28, 2021
Last ride: A statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is trucked away from Charlottesville, Virginia, in July — and bound for a museum exhibition in Los Angeles in 2022.

The Hot Market for Toppled Confederate Statues

Artists, museums and other groups are vying to claim fallen monuments from the Jim Crow era — but for very different reasons.
by Kriston Capps via CityLab on December 9, 2021
Ceremonial flags used in funerals on a chair
partner

The Last 20 Years Have Remade the Nature of Military Service. Here’s How.

Contractors are increasingly doing dangerous work helping our troops — without any of the recognition.
by Kyle Longley via Made By History on November 11, 2021
Aged photograph of Chinese laborers working on the railroad.

Artifacts Used by Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers Found in Utah

Researchers discovered the remains of a mid-19th century house, a centuries-old Chinese coin and other traces of the short-lived town of Terrace.
by Livia Gershon via Smithsonian Magazine on October 26, 2021
The Titanic sinking.

How The Titanic Haunts Us

We have good reason to remember the story of what happened to hubristic rich people, and the imprisoned poor, in an enormous opulent floating palace.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 26, 2021
Illustration of the first Taoist funeral procession in Los Angeles, which was held in 1872 and was led by a Taoist priest from China. Processions were held every three years until 1903, for the gods to escort the victims through the seven layers of heaven.

Is L.A. Ready to Remember the 1871 Chinese Massacre?

Long buried, the 1871 Chinese Massacre surfaces amid a significant anniversary and a new wave of violence.
by Michael Woo via Zócalo Public Square on October 24, 2021
A witch's hat and crooked stick, with the words "rags to witches"

Has Witch City Lost Its Way?

They’re hip, business-savvy, and know how to cast a spell: How a new generation of witches and warlocks selling $300 wands conquered Salem.
by Kathryn Miles via Boston Magazine on October 22, 2021
Illustration of the funeral procession of the late Captain Cailloux, 1863.

The Case for Posthumously Awarding André Cailloux the Congressional Medal of Honor

Cailloux’s valor, and the Black troops he led in battle, electrified northern opinion and gave federal race policy a strong jolt.
by Lawrence N. Powell via Muster on October 19, 2021
Phil Wiggins performs at the Blair Mountain Centennial. | Rafael Barker, collection of the WV Mine Wars Museum.

The Singing Left

At a recent commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, songs of struggle took center stage.
by Kim Kelly via The Baffler on September 21, 2021
Red, white, and blue

‘The Cause’ Review: Revolutionary Answers

The author of ‘Founding Brothers’ tries to capture the breadth of the War for Independence in a single narrative.
by Kathleen DuVal via The Wall Street Journal on September 17, 2021
Person looking at 9/11 museum

What the 9/11 Museum Remembers, and What It Forgets

Twenty years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the museum is still struggling to address the legacy of those events.
by Emily Witt via The New Yorker on September 9, 2021
Statue on blue background

History Was Never Subject to Democratic Control

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?
by Helen Lewis via The Atlantic on August 9, 2021
Inscription on Gullah-Geechee gravestone

Hilton Head Island— Haunted by Its Own History

Historical traces of racism and exclusion remain on the island. It’s just that new residents can’t—or won’t—read them.
by Alexa Hazel via Public Books on July 20, 2021
Three drawings of the Veiled Prophet, a figure in robes and a pointed hat, holding a staff and a pistol.

The End of the Veiled Prophet

After over a century, the unelected mascot of St. Louis is finally losing its place in public life.
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via The Nation on July 9, 2021
A group of formerly enslaved people at a county almshouse, c. 1900.

Juneteenth Is About Freedom

On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.
by Dale Kretz via Jacobin on June 19, 2021
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