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The World According to the 1580s

A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.

by Benjamin Breen on April 17, 2019

A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

by Sarah Rose Sharp via Hyperallergic on April 15, 2019

How the South Won the Civil War

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 1, 2019

United Mine Workers on a picket line.

The Past and Future of the American Strike

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.

by Richard Yeselson via The Nation on March 21, 2019

The History of History

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

Counter-Histories of the Internet

Our ethics and desires can shape digital networks at least as forcefully as those networks influence us.

by Marta Figlerowicz via Public Books on February 25, 2019

Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

Remapping LA

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.

by Carolina A. Miranda via Guernica on February 19, 2019

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist President

He never denounced slavery and was brutal towards American Indians, but remains a popular figure. Why?

by Jeff Taylor via The American Conservative on February 8, 2019

Making History Go Viral

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2018

Trump among a group of people with heads bowed in prayer.

Evangelicalism and Politics

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

by John Fea, Lerone A. Martin, Laura Gifford, R. Marie Griffith via The American Historian on November 30, 2018

Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

by David W. Blight, Martha Hodes via Public Books on November 26, 2018

Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter with a student in the 1950s.

Cataloging Black Knowledge

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.

by Zita Cristina Nunes via Perspectives on History on November 20, 2018

Who Gets to Tell the Story?

Christine Blasey Ford, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, and battles over America's history.

by Rachel Wheeler via Made By History on October 17, 2018

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review

A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.

by Robinson Meyer, Ashley Fetters via The Atlantic on September 6, 2018

New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018

What Does It Mean to Give David Petraeus the Floor?

Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.

by Gunar Olsen via The Nation on July 5, 2018

Ronald Reagan and the Cold War: What Mattered Most

By seeking to talk to Soviet leaders and end the Cold War, Reagan helped to win it.

by Melvyn P. Leffler via Texas National Security Review on June 5, 2018

Trump speaks to auto workers.

Forget Trump – Populism is the Cure, Not the Disease

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

by Thomas Frank via The Guardian on May 23, 2018

Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Is No Libertarian

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

by Maurice S. Lee via Public Books on May 18, 2018

The Gods of Indian Country

How American expansion reshaped the religious worlds of both settlers and Native people.

by Jennifer Graber via Not Even Past on May 1, 2018

Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora

Restoring agency to enslaved people means acknowledging not only that they created marriages, but that they ended them, too.

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on March 31, 2018

Infrastructure is Good for Business

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?

by Brent Cebul on March 12, 2018

5 Questions with Ronit Stahl

A Q&A with the author of "Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America."

by Ronit Y. Stahl, Lauren Turek via Religion in American History on November 27, 2017

Trump is the New _______

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 24, 2017

What’s So Bad About Ken Burns?

The modern historical profession's purpose has changed drastically in the past century.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 3, 2017

Mont Pelerin in Virginia

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on September 7, 2017

The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard Of

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery.

by Marcus Rediker via Smithsonian on September 1, 2017

Lin Manuel Miranda and fellow actor dressed in colonial era clothing

How to Love Problematic Pop Culture

Revisiting the contradictions in "Hamilton" – and in the pushback to criticisms of the beloved musical.

by Lyra Monteiro via Medium on August 27, 2017

We Need a New Museum that Tells Us How We Came to Believe What We Believe

The answers are just as important as the stories that our history books tell.

by T. J. Stiles via HNN on August 27, 2017

Populism Now Divides, Yet Once it United the Working Class

Our difficulties today are far removed from what the Populist Party tried to tackle. But their movement can nourish our imaginations.

by Adrienne Petty via Aeon on July 31, 2017

The Racial Wealth Gap and the Problem of Historical Narration

The roots of inequality run a lot deeper than is often acknowledged.

by Destin Jenkins via Process: A Blog for American History on June 27, 2017

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