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The Making of the Radical Republicans

How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?
by Eric Foner via The Nation on May 5, 2020
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The Left Side of History

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.
by Allen C. Guelzo via Claremont Review of Books on May 4, 2020

A Motley Crew for our Times?

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.
by Marcus Rediker, Martina Tazzioli via Radical Philosophy on May 1, 2020

What Richard Hofstadter Got Wrong

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.
by Chris Lehmann via The New Republic on April 16, 2020
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The History of History

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

Remnants of the New Deal Order

We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on April 13, 2020
Detail from the painting Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy, featuring Franklin and Hamilton.

The Founders' Moral Mind Was Revolutionary, and Free

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.
by Bradley J. Birzer via The American Conservative on April 2, 2020

History Won’t Save Us

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.
by William Hogeland via The New Republic on March 25, 2020

Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.
by Adaner Usmani, Jacobin via Jacobin on March 17, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.
by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

A War for Settler Colonialism

Refocusing the study of the Civil War on the West shows that events out west were not simply “noteworthy”; they were emblematic.
by Paul Barba via Muster on March 3, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020

Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776

The United States didn't begin in 1619.
by Wilfred Reilly via Quillette on February 17, 2020
George Washington on the cover of Alexis Coe's "You Never Forget Your First."

A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.
by Alexis Coe, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on February 4, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.
by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

A Matter of Facts

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
by Sean Wilentz via The Atlantic on January 22, 2020
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On the Right: NET and Modern Conservatism

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.
by Allison Perlman via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 22, 2020

The Way We Write History Has Changed

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on January 21, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?
by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020

Why Historical Analogy Matters

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.
by Peter E. Gordon via New York Review of Books on January 7, 2020

The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on December 23, 2019

Preaching a Conspiracy Theory

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.
by Allen C. Guelzo via City Journal on December 8, 2019

White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by Bradley D. Proctor via The Activist History Review on December 6, 2019

Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.
by Michael Kazin via The Nation on December 2, 2019

Historians Write About a Different Jefferson Now: Four Books Show How Different

Four new books show how different, and maybe also why.
by S. Richard Gard Jr. via Virginia Magazine on December 1, 2019
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Talking Drums

On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.
by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Oxford American on November 19, 2019
Drawing of Puritans.

How Should We Remember the Puritans?

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.
by Andrew Delbanco via The Nation on November 18, 2019
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The Center Does Not Hold

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on October 29, 2019

The Treason of the Elites

For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.
by Rich Lowry via National Review on October 24, 2019

The Real Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on October 21, 2019

Story-Shaped Things

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.
by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on October 16, 2019
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