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Data Overload

How will the historians of the future manage the massive archival data our society has begun to compile on the internet?

We Hold These Ideas to Be Self-Evident

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

The (Historical) Body in Pain

How can we understand the physical pain of others?

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.
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The History of History

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

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?
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.

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.

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."

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
American Indian woman and children.

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.”

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.

Best American History Reads of 2018

Bunk's editor shares some of his favorite pieces from the year.

What Does History Smell Like?

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.
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.
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.
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Arguing Biography

An university press editor considers the merits and limitations of biography as a scholarly form.

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.
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.
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.”

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.
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.

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.

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.

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
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.

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.

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.

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.”

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