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Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight
As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.
by
Dave Zirin
via
The Nation
on
April 15, 2022
We Are a Band of Brothers
Why are so many songs of the Confederacy indelibly inscribed in my Yankee memory?
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
April 9, 2022
Right-Wing Nationalists Are Marching into the Future by Rewriting the Past
Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.
by
Ishaan Tharoor
via
Washington Post
on
February 11, 2022
How to Tell the Thanksgiving Story on Its 400th Anniversary
Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.
by
David Kindy
via
Smithsonian
on
November 23, 2021
A Tragedy After the Unknown’s Funeral: Charles Whittlesey and the Costs of Heroism
While he did not die in a war, he can certainly be mourned as a casualty of war—as can the thousands of other veterans who have died by suicide.
by
Jenifer Leigh van Vleck
via
Arlington National Cemetery
on
November 16, 2021
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?
Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
September 24, 2021
Relic Steel
After 9/11, hundreds of pieces of steel debris were catalouged. Much of it ended up in small municipal memorials and in other locations around the country.
by
Max Holleran
,
Samuel Holleran
via
Places Journal
on
September 1, 2021
What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History
Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers' rights.
by
Abby Lee Hood
via
Smithsonian
on
August 25, 2021
The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76
The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
by
Jason Tebbe
via
Tropics of Meta
on
July 26, 2021
partner
Twenty Years After 9/11, its Memorialization Remains Contested
Should 9/11 remembrances include the global war on terror?
by
John Bodnar
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Made by History
on
May 28, 2021
The U.S. Senate’s Oldest Office Building Honors a Racist
Richard Russell was a segregationist and a fervent opponent of civil rights. So why does his name still adorn the Russell Senate Office Building?
by
Walter Shapiro
via
The New Republic
on
April 26, 2021
How Will We Remember This?
A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.
by
Justin Davidson
via
Curbed
on
March 15, 2021
Oregon Once Legally Banned Black People. Has the State Reconciled its Racist Past?
Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.
by
Nina Strochlic
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
March 8, 2021
Why Aren’t Conservative Women Recognized During Women’s History Month?
The left regularly dismisses such women as less worthy of recognition.
by
Kay C. James
via
The Washington Times
on
March 1, 2021
Counterhistories of the Sport Stadium
As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.
by
Frank Andre Guridy
via
Public Books
on
December 30, 2020
The Unfinished Story of Emmett Till’s Final Journey
Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.
by
Alexandra Marvar
via
Gen
on
October 8, 2020
The New Monuments That America Needs
Every statue defends an idea about history, but what if those ideas are wrong?
by
Hua Hsu
via
The New Yorker
on
September 15, 2020
Why the Black National Anthem Is Lifting Every Voice to Sing
Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition.
by
Janelle Harris Dixon
via
Smithsonian
on
August 10, 2020
partner
Hamilton and the Unsung Labors of Wives
Who tells our stories has always mattered.
by
Jennifer Forestal
,
Menaka Philips
via
Made by History
on
August 6, 2020
partner
A Long-Forgotten Holiday Animates Black Lives Matter
The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.
by
Tom Zoellner
via
Made by History
on
July 31, 2020
All Statues Are Local
The Great Toppling of 2020 and the rebirth of civic imagination.
by
Siddhartha Mitter
via
The Intercept
on
July 19, 2020
Where Were You in ‘73?
In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today's political reaction.
by
Jason Tebbe
via
Tropics of Meta
on
July 16, 2020
Public Monuments and Ulysses S. Grant’s Contested Legacy
It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.
by
Nick Sacco
via
Muster
on
July 7, 2020
How Northern Publishers Cashed In on Fundraising for Confederate Monuments
In the years after the Civil War, printmakers in New York and elsewhere abetted the Lost Cause movement by selling images of false idols.
by
Harold Holzer
via
Smithsonian
on
July 7, 2020
The Creator of Mount Rushmore’s Forgotten Ties to White Supremacy
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga.
by
Diane Bernard
via
Retropolis
on
July 2, 2020
Dreams of a Revolution Deferred
How African-Americans in Early America celebrated the Declaration of Independence's ideals, even as basic freedoms were denied to them.
by
Derrick R. Spires
via
Uncommon Sense
on
June 30, 2020
The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy
Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?
by
Michael Paradis
via
The Atlantic
on
June 26, 2020
Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial Uses Racist Imagery. But Don’t Tear It Down.
Keep in mind what it meant to the people who created it.
by
David W. Blight
via
Washington Post
on
June 25, 2020
The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio
Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
via
The New Yorker
on
June 24, 2020
Growing Up with Juneteenth
How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
The New Yorker
on
June 19, 2020
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