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How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 11, 2020

Was Indian Removal Genocidal?

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Panorama on August 4, 2020

On the Uses of History for Staying Alive

Reflections on reading Nietzsche in Alaska in the early days of Covid-19.
by Bathsheba Demuth via The Point on July 12, 2020

How Is a Disaster Made?

Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
by Andy Horowitz via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 7, 2020
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The History of History

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

The Empire of All Maladies

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.
by Nick Estes via The Baffler on July 6, 2020
Billboard for "Gateway to the Canyons" featuring a painting of Plains Indians meeting Spanish Catholic monks.

The Black Legend Lives

A review of "Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest."
by Jeremy Beer via Commonweal on July 1, 2020
A drawing of two diamonds

Last Pole

The author goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.
by Julian Chehirian via The Public Domain Review on May 27, 2020

History in a Crisis - Lessons for Covid-19

The history of epidemics offers considerable advice, but only if people know the history and respond with wisdom.
by David S. Jones via The New England Journal Of Medicine on March 12, 2020
Watercolor of Abraham Lincoln with soldiers in swirls of red across his face.

Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t.
by Andrew Ferguson via The Atlantic on February 15, 2020

The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.
by Joseph M. Adelman via The Junto on January 23, 2020

The Long War Against Slavery

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020

How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.
by Abram C. Van Engen via Humanities on January 2, 2020

Putting Women Back Where They Belong: In Federalism and the U.S. History Survey

Looking to the local level showcases how women claimed their rights in Early America.
by Laura F. Edwards via Muster on December 27, 2019

The Contagious Revolution

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.
by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on December 19, 2019

Making Impeachment Matter

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.
by Alex Pareene via The New Republic on November 21, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 29, 2019

The Great Fear of 1776

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.
by Jeffrey Ostler via Age of Revolutions on September 23, 2019
Painting of a building, entitled "Outpost," by Hattie Ruth Miller.

Unsettling Histories of the South

Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.
by Angela Hudson via Southern Cultures on September 18, 2019

The Anti-Slavery Constitution

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.
by Timothy Sandefur via National Review on September 12, 2019
Political cartoon about Reconstruction.

The Buried Promise of the Reconstruction Amendments

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.
by Eric Foner, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on September 9, 2019

"Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason"

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.
by Keri Leigh Merritt, Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 24, 2019

America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.
by Tom Holland via New York Review of Books on August 6, 2019

The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-Wing Talking Point

Certain pundits are misrepresenting the biography of the "first black slaveholder."
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 22, 2019

The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
by James Oakes via The Nation on July 15, 2019

The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.
by Sarah E. Bond via Hyperallergic on July 3, 2019

Jane Addams, Mary Rozet Smith, And The Disappointments of One-Sided Correspondence

Lost letters between Jane Addams and her best friend leave questions for historians,
by Stacy Pratt McDermott via Jane Addams Papers Project on July 1, 2019

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 11, 2019

We Have Always Loved Ranking Things, Particularly American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley offers a brief history of political listicles.
by Douglas Brinkley via Literary Hub on May 8, 2019
Enslaved people being baptized.

'Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World'

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."
by Katharine Gerbner, Casey Schmitt via The Junto on April 19, 2019
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