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Best American History Reads of 2018

Bunk's editor shares some of his favorite pieces from the year.
by Tony Field via Medium on January 8, 2019

What Does History Smell Like?

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.
by Mark S. R. Jenner, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 28, 2018

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.
by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018
Jill Lepore

'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018
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The History of History

How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.
Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018

Arguing Biography

An university press editor considers the merits and limitations of biography as a scholarly form.
by Michael J. McGandy via Uncommon Sense on October 23, 2018

History for a Post-Fact America

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on October 19, 2018
Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.
by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018
Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

Beyond People’s History

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”
by Samantha Schuyler via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 29, 2018

Amid the Online Glut of Facts and Fake News, We’re Teaching History Wrong

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.
by Rebecca Onion, Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 18, 2018
Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn’s Anti-Textbook

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.
by Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 16, 2018

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018

Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.
by Brandon R. Byrd via Black Perspectives on August 21, 2018

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
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Charlottesville Was About Memory, Not Monuments

Why our history educations must be better.
by Julian Maxwell Hayter via Made By History on August 10, 2018

Why Is History Always About Humans?

As historians turn their attention to animals, they are shedding new light on what it means to be human.
by Amy Crawford via Boston Globe on July 13, 2018

Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’

For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.
by Brentin Mock via CityLab on July 4, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”
by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018

Can History Avoid Conspiracy?

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
by Andy Seal via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 4, 2018
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Resurrection City, 2.0

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.
by Marisa Chappell on May 12, 2018

The Silent Type

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on May 6, 2018

The Role of Water in African American History

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on May 4, 2018

Kanye’s Brand of “Freethinking” Has a Long, Awful History

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 2, 2018
Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, two non gender-conforming people in London, 1869.

What is Trans History?

From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.
by Kritika Agarwal via Perspectives on History on May 2, 2018

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on April 25, 2018
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The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."
by Benjamin Breen on April 12, 2018

Writing Jewish History

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.
by Adam Kirsch via The New Yorker on March 26, 2018

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.
by Lane Windham, Chris Brooks via Jacobin on February 25, 2018

Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
by Gabriel Winant via The Nation on February 7, 2018
Political cartoon of the Populist Party python eating the Democratic Party donkey.

Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 14, 2018
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