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Cover of Moyne's book, with the subtitle "How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War," in front of a desert landscape.

Not Humane, Just Invisible

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.
by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 3, 2021
A police officer standing over a victim of the Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa, March 21, 1960

The Etymology of Terror

For more than 150 years after it was coined, “terrorism” meant violence inflicted by the state on its people. How did the word come to mean the reverse?
by Matt Seaton via New York Review of Books on November 17, 2021
Black and white photograph of Mississippi SNCC workers at conference at Tougaloo College, 1965.

SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
by Dan Berger via Boston Review on November 15, 2021
Black and white photo of children eating a meal together

Have Crisis, Feed Kids

How a series of emergencies resulted in the school lunch programs we have today.
by A. R. Ruis via Nursing Clio on November 4, 2021
In plane sight: Loadmasters look over Tumon Bay, Guam, during Exercise Cope North.

Guam: Resisting Empire at the “Tip of the Spear”

The Pentagon is increasing its forces on the US territory, but Indigenous residents are fighting back.
by Chris Gelardi via The Nation on November 2, 2021
Shot full of bullet holes, a sign marking where police recovered the body of Emmett Till.
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Excluding Black Americans From Our History Has Proved Deadly

Why it's so important to remember even our ugliest and most racist chapters.
by Nancy Bercaw, Dave Tell, Tsione Wolde-Michael via Made By History on October 20, 2021
Collage of strips of famous African American faces in a mechanical press.

Afropessimism and Its Discontents

A guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the politically confused.
by Greg Tate via The Nation on September 17, 2021
Prisoners and guards in Attica State Prison

Honoring Attica After Half a Century

It’s time to demand law enforcement accountability for the death of unarmed citizens not just on America’s streets but also in our prisons.
by Heather Ann Thompson via The Nation on September 13, 2021

The Case Against Humane War

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war.
by Daniel Bessner via The New Republic on September 8, 2021
An illustration of broken and bloody pieces representing awareness of Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

Traumatic Monologues

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.
by Melanie K. Yazzie via The Baffler on September 6, 2021
Tommie Smith on podium receives gold medal with fist raised, holding shoe.
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Rule 50 and Racial Justice

The long history of the international olympic committee's war on athletes' free expression.
by Debbie Sharnak, Yannick Kluch via HNN on August 22, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Joe Biden
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The Atlantic Charter Then and Now: Security and Stability Needs Justice

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Elizabeth Borgwardt via Made By History on June 22, 2021
Coup leaders Admiral Massera and General Videla dressed in uniform

Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.
via National Security Archive on March 23, 2021
An illustration of Black men pulling a platform covered in trash and American symbols.

What Price Wholeness?

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?
by Shennette Garrett-Scott via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2021
Artwork depicting the Manzanar War Relocation Center sign.

Souvenirs From Manzanar

The daughter and granddaughter of a former internee return to the notorious WWI-era detention site for Japanese-Americans.
by Miyako Pleines via HyperText on December 20, 2020
Joe Biden speaking as the president elect.
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What Biden’s Attachment to An American Century Might Mean

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.
by Suzanne Enzerink via Made By History on December 16, 2020
A car driving down the road.

The Vanishing American Century?

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.
by Daniel Immerwahr, Jeremi Suri via Not Even Past on December 9, 2020
Joe Biden walking in a church cemetery
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Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.
by Theresa Keeley via Made By History on November 30, 2020

A Possible Majority

A political history of the present moment.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Dissent on October 27, 2020
Black Lives Matter march.

Civil Rights Has Always Been a Global Movement

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.
by Brenda Gayle Plummer via Foreign Affairs on June 19, 2020
Illustrated man with a top hat, sitting next to headstones.

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

The Long, Winding, and Painful Story of Asylum

An ancient concept, asylum has become just another political tool in the hands of our government.
by John B. Washington via The Nation on April 20, 2020

Why It Took Congress 40 Years to Pass a Bill Acknowledging the Armenian Genocide

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.
by Eldad Ben Aharon via The Conversation on March 6, 2020

A Post-Mortem

A look at the impeachment of Warren Hastings and the nature of American power.
by Malick W. Ghachem via Age of Revolutions on February 13, 2020
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How Oscar Speeches Became So Political

Oscar night has become a platform for stars to pitch political causes.
via Retro Report on February 5, 2020

The New China Scare

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.
by Fareed Zakaria via Foreign Affairs on December 9, 2019

The Forgotten History of Feminismo Americano

Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.
by Katherine M. Marino via Tropics of Meta on February 22, 2019

An Unlikely Hardliner, George H. W. Bush Was Ready to Push Presidential Powers

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.
by Kate Keller via Smithsonian on May 14, 2018
Map of the Panama Canal Zone

The Unknown History of Japanese Internment in Panama

The historical narrative surrounding the wartime confinement of ethnic Japanese in the United States grows ever more complex.
by Greg Robinson, Maxime Minne via Discover Nikkei on April 26, 2018
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How the Haitian Refugee Crisis Led to the Indefinite Detention of Immigrants

It wasn't always this way.
by Carl Lindskoog via Made By History on April 9, 2018
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