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‘The Cause’ Review: Revolutionary Answers
The author of ‘Founding Brothers’ tries to capture the breadth of the War for Independence in a single narrative.
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Kathleen DuVal
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The Wall Street Journal
on
September 17, 2021
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
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The New Yorker
on
September 9, 2021
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
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The Atlantic
on
August 9, 2021
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
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Public Books
on
July 20, 2021
The End of the Veiled Prophet
After over a century, the unelected mascot of St. Louis is finally losing its place in public life.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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The Nation
on
July 9, 2021
Juneteenth Is About Freedom
On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.
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Dale Kretz
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Jacobin
on
June 19, 2021
Celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston
I had sung the Black National Anthem countless times, but hearing those words reverberate around me in this place, on this day, moved me in a new way.
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Clint Smith
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The Paris Review
on
June 18, 2021
The Fog of History Wars
Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.
by
David W. Blight
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The New Yorker
on
June 9, 2021
What Should a Coronavirus Memorial Look Like? This Powerful Statement on Gun Violence Offers a Model
The pandemic, like other open wounds, must be remembered with an “open” memorial.
by
Philip Kennicott
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Washington Post
on
April 9, 2021
partner
Reckoning With Our Past Means Commemorating Violent Histories
The history of resistance to racial oppression includes armed, violent resistance.
by
K. Stephen Prince
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Made by History
on
April 5, 2021
James Weldon Johnson’s Ode to the “Deep River” of American History
What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot.
by
David W. Blight
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The New Republic
on
March 2, 2021
'It Shook Me to My Core': 50 Years of Carole King's Tapestry
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece.
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Dave Simpson
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Laura Snapes
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The Guardian
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February 12, 2021
partner
The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is That a Problem?
How brutal outlaws became romanticized.
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Jamie L. H. Goodall
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Made by History
on
February 5, 2021
How a Railroad Engineer From Nebraska Invented the World's First Ski Chairlift
The device was part of an elaborate plan on behalf of Union Pacific to boost passenger rail travel in the American West.
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Sarah Kuta
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Smithsonian
on
February 2, 2021
The World's Only Samurai Colony Was Once in California
The families arrived from Japan with fanfare, most disappeared without a trace.
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Katie Dowd
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SFGATE
on
January 26, 2021
Early American Urban Protests
Eric Hinderaker offers a masterclass in how to peel back the layers of data, scholarship, and propaganda to understand what we call the Boston Massacre.
by
Bob Carey
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The Metropole
on
January 19, 2021
A White Mob Unleashed the Worst Election Day Violence in U.S. History in Florida a Century Ago
In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920.
by
Gillian Brockell
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Retropolis
on
November 2, 2020
partner
Columbus Day Had Value for Italian Americans — But It’s Time to Rethink It
It helped erode discrimination but also upheld racial prejudice.
by
Danielle Battisti
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Made by History
on
October 12, 2020
Middle Schoolers Take on Columbus
A lesson on contextualizing history.
by
Alex Pinelli
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Perspectives on History
on
October 8, 2020
The Racist History Behind El Paso’s XII Travelers Memorial
Protesters in El Paso have focused on toppling The Equestrian, a monument to a racist colonizer. But the story behind the monument goes deeper.
by
David Dorado Romo
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The Texas Observer
on
September 28, 2020
The Complicated Legacy of the Pilgrims is Finally Coming to Light After 400 Years
Descendants of the Pilgrims have highlighted their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.
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Peter C. Mancall
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The Conversation
on
September 4, 2020
The American Museum of Natural History Grapples with its Most Controversial Piece
Museum visitors, as well as scholars of art, history, and African and Native American studies, discuss the sculpture’s intended and perceived meanings.
by
Reniqua Allen
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Aeon
on
August 4, 2020
partner
Americans Put Up Statues During the Gilded Age. Today We’re Tearing Them Down.
Why the Gilded Age was the era of statues.
by
Katrina Gulliver
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Made by History
on
July 26, 2020
partner
The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille
They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by
Zara Anishanslin
via
Made by History
on
July 14, 2020
The Question of Monuments
Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.
by
Kirk Savage
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
July 13, 2020
Buffalo’s Vanished Maritime Past
The city was once a bustling and infamous Great Lakes port. How should it be remembered?
by
Jeff Z. Klein
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Belt Magazine
on
July 9, 2020
What Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments
In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'
by
Jonathan W. White
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Scott Sandage
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Smithsonian
on
June 30, 2020
The Racism of Confederate Monuments Extends to Voter Suppression
GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.
by
Karen L. Cox
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Karen L. Cox Blog
on
June 30, 2020
Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations
Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.
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The Public Domain Review
on
June 19, 2020
Commemorating the Nurses of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.
by
Allison S. Finkelstein
via
Arlington National Cemetery
on
June 12, 2020
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