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Trump Syllabus 2.0

An introduction to the currents of American culture that led to "Trumpism.'

by Keisha N. Blain, N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 28, 2016

The History of National Women's History Month

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.

by Julia Zorthian via TIME on February 29, 2016

Protestors walking with pro-integration posters

"Jim Crow Must Go"

Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation – and it barely made the history books.

by Matt Delmont via Salon on February 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School

How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on January 26, 2016

The History of History

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

Modern Segregation

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.

by Richard Rothstein via Economic Policy Institute on March 6, 2014

Civil War reenactors.

Telling the Untold Story 1

Why Marvin Greer spends his weekends playing the part of a slave at Civil War reenactments.

via BackStory on March 1, 2013

Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem With Popularization

Making history more appealing to the public may come at a cost.

by Kathryn Lofton via Religion Dispatches on June 17, 2009

The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.

by Jeremy Bangs via HNN on September 1, 2005

Cover of Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn's History Lessons

"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.

by Michael Kazin via Dissent on April 3, 2004

Cover of "Making Whiteness," featuring a Black man in front of a billboard of larger-than-life white faces.

Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.

by In Black America via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 1, 1998

Alcatraz Island prison sign painted over to welcome Indians to Indian land.

The Art of Stealing Human Rights

Native peoples face similar struggles with the federal governments in the U.S. and in Canada.

by Radio Free Alcatraz via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1970

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