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This Is Where the Word 'History' Comes From

The word 'history' evolved from an ancient Greek verb, but its definition has changed over the years

by Katy Steinmetz via TIME on June 23, 2017

Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on June 22, 2017

Jackson statue outside the White House.

Trump's Jacksonian Moment

A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.

by Richard White via Boston Review on June 7, 2017

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, Jamestown Women

A new British television series, Jamestown, set off a minor public debate about just how rebellious women could be in the past.

by Tom Cutterham via The Junto on May 9, 2017

The History of History

How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.

Trump's Predictable Rise

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

by Josh Mound via Jacobin on April 21, 2017

It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Historians Against Slavery on March 17, 2017

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016

Is the Greatest Collection of Slave Narratives Tainted by Racism?

How Depression-Era racial dynamics may have shaped our understanding of antebellum enslaved life.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 6, 2016

Slavery and Freedom

Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.

by Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Annette Gordon-Reed, Walter Johnson via YouTube on May 20, 2016

Liberals Love Alexander Hamilton. But Aaron Burr Was a Real Progressive Hero.

Why Broadway's biggest villain is worth a second look.

by Nancy Isenberg via Washington Post on March 30, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016

Is History Written About Men, by Men?

A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.

by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion via Slate on January 6, 2016

There's No National Site Devoted to Reconstruction—Yet

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

by Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur via The Atlantic on April 29, 2015

The Unlikely Paths of Grant and Lee

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on April 9, 2015

The Problem of Slavery

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 23, 2014

'The Greatest Catastrophe the World Has Seen'

Considering six books on the outbreak of World War I and its place in history.

by R. J. W. Evans via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2014

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.

by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic on June 19, 2013

How Suffering Shaped Emancipation

Jim Downs discusses the plight of freed slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

by Jim Downs, Robin Lindley via HNN on August 6, 2012

Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History

How does the global effort to eradicate smallpox fit into the history of U.S.-Soviet relations?

by Erez Manela via Diplomatic History on March 5, 2010

Eagle on the front cover of Lynd's "Origins of American Radicalism" book

The Return of Staughton Lynd

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.

by David Waldstreicher via HNN on February 15, 2010

French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne, in 1915.

Rethinking the War to End All Wars

For the players in the First World War, the goal was not to prevail but to avoid being seen as the loser.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 16, 2004

Against Presentism

An argument against looking at our past through the lens of today.

by Lynn A. Hunt via Perspectives on History on May 1, 2002

Six hands holding a sword with an eagle on the hilt.

The Democratic Promise of Manifest Destiny

All Americans with some education are aware that Manifest Destiny was one of the Bad Things in our past and very few know any more about it than that.

by Hamilton Craig via Compact on March 25, 2025

Engraving by Samuel de Champlain of himself and his Algonquin allies attacking the Iroquois.

An Expanding Vision of America

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

by Nicole Eustace via New York Review of Books on March 6, 2025

1860 political cartoon depicting Lincoln as a "Wide-Awake"

A Posthumous Romance of White Male Reunion

The history of deriving political meaning from Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality.

by Andrew Donnelly via HNN on February 11, 2025

Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

by David W. Blight, James Grossman, Beth English via The New Republic on February 6, 2025

What Is the Role of the Historian?

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

by Barbara Weinstein via HNN on February 4, 2025

The End of Resistance History

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

by Charlotte Rosen via Protean on January 20, 2025

Best History Writing of 2024

Bunk's editors share their favorite history writing from the year just concluded.

by Tony Field, Jaime Fuller, Kathryn Ostrofsky, Sarah Stuart, Saige Beatman on January 9, 2025

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