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The Mild, Mild West

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.
by Karl Jacoby via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 13, 2019

The Historical Profession's Greatest Modern Scandal, Two Decades Later

Emory professor Michael Bellesiles resigned in the midst of a political firestorm. He still stands by his work.
by Bill Black via The Week on September 18, 2019

Writing the History of Capitalism with Class

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.
by Thomas Jessen Adams via Nonsite on September 9, 2019
Supreme Court building under dark rainclouds.
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Could Footnotes Be the Key to Winning the Disinformation Wars?

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.
by Karin Wulf via Made By History on August 29, 2019
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The History of History

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

How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.
by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019
Cotton field.

How The 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.
by Phillip W. Magness via National Review on August 26, 2019
Painting of Santa Claus giving a sword to a Confederate cavalryman next to a dinosaur.

What Is Revisionist History?

What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
by Erin Bartram via Contingent on August 8, 2019
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy during the Pride 2014 parade in San Francisco, California.

Writing Gay History

How the story itself came out.
by Jim Downs via Humanities on June 27, 2019

Against the Great Man Theory of Historians

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jacobin on June 12, 2019

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."
by Jill Lepore via Literary Hub on June 4, 2019
Cover of "These Truths"

New Yorker Nation

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.
by Richard White via Reviews In American History on June 2, 2019
Painting by Titus Kaphar entitled "Page 4 of Jefferson’s ‘Farm Book"

How Proslavery Was the Constitution?

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2019

The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
by Timothy Shenk via The Nation on May 20, 2019

Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on May 20, 2019

Muslims of Early America

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 20, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.
by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on May 16, 2019
The Interface Message Processor that connected UCLA to ARPANET.

Communication Revolution

ARPANET and the development of the internet, 50 years later.
by Zoë Jackson via Perspectives on History on May 14, 2019

Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.
by Corey Robin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019
Internet Archive servers.

Data Overload

How will the historians of the future manage the massive archival data our society has begun to compile on the internet?
by Seth Denbo via Perspectives on History on May 7, 2019

We Hold These Ideas to Be Self-Evident

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.
by Michael Kimmage via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 29, 2019

The (Historical) Body in Pain

How can we understand the physical pain of others?
by Cassia Roth via Nursing Clio on April 9, 2019

Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.
by Destin Jenkins, Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on April 2, 2019
Francis Fukuyama

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?
by Maximillian Alvarez via Boston Review on March 22, 2019
A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.
by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on March 11, 2019

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.
by Lynne Feeley via The Nation on February 26, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."
by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.
by Christine DeLucia via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 10, 2019
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