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Oklahoma Was Never Really O.K.

A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical — and the American experiment.
by Frank Rich via Vulture on April 2, 2019

On the Range

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.
by Eric A. Powell via Archaeology Magazine on April 1, 2019

Ulysses Grant’s Forgotten Fight for Native American Rights

The President and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Indians to gain citizenship, but their efforts are mostly lost to history.
by Mary Stockwell via Zócalo Public Square on January 7, 2019

DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land

Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression.
by Aviva Chomsky via The Nation on November 29, 2018

Donald Trump, The Resistance, and the Limits of Normcore Politics

There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.
by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on July 3, 2018

America’s First Female Mapmaker

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.
by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 18, 2018

Edward S. Curtis: Romance vs. Reality

In a famous 1910 photograph "In a Piegan Lodge," a small clock appears between two seated Native American men.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 18, 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

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 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
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At Home With Ursula Le Guin

Her novels featured dragons and wizards, but they were also deeply grounded in indigenous American ways of thought.
by Benjamin Breen on January 31, 2018

How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment.
by T. J. Stiles via Literary Hub on January 31, 2018

Virginia Is for Lovers

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.
by Gretchen Livingston, Peter Wallenstein, Angela Gonzales, Christopher Bonastia via Contexts Magazine on January 22, 2018
Albert B. Fall swears in as Interior Secretary in 1921.

Reckoning with History: Interior’s Legacy of Bad Behavior

Ryan Zinke isn’t the first Interior secretary to attract controversy.
by Adam M. Sowards via High Country News on January 3, 2018

Annotating the First Page of the Navajo-English Dictionary

“It is one thing to play dress-up, to imitate pronunciations and understanding; it is another thing to think or dream or live in a language not your own.”
by Danielle Geller via The New Yorker on November 7, 2017

How a Court Answered a Forgotten Question of Slavery’s Legacy

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on September 11, 2017

Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on July 3, 2017

Law Enforcement is Still Used as a Colonial Tool In Indian Country

Leaked documents reveal coordination between big business and law enforcement to break up last year’s protests at Standing Rock.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via The Marshall Project on June 28, 2017

The Nineteenth-Century Trump

President Trump is by no means off the mark to call attention to Andrew Jackson as a precursor. The analogy, however, is not necessarily flattering.
by Daniel Walker Howe via New York Review of Books on June 27, 2017
Text of Medicine Creek Treaty.

Medicine Creek, the Treaty That Set the Stage for Standing Rock

The Fish Wars of the 1960s led to an affirmation of Native American rights.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on June 9, 2017

The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on January 19, 2017

Native Land Digital

Do you live on Native American territory?
via Native Land Digital on January 1, 2017

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016

"Nature’s Nation": The Hudson River School and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1876

How American landscape painters, seen as old-fashioned and provincial, gained cultural power by glorifying expansionism.
by Linda Ferber via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on May 1, 2016
Photograph of Chief Iron Tail.

American Indians, Playing Themselves

As Buffalo Bill's performers, they were walking stereotypes. But a New York photographer showed the humans beneath the headdresses.
by Michelle Delaney via What It Means to Be American on January 27, 2015

These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States

As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor.
by Lincoln Mullen via Smithsonian on May 15, 2014

A Topic Best Avoided

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?
by Nicholas Guyatt via London Review of Books on December 1, 2011

American Pastoral

Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.
by Charles Petersen via n+1 on February 26, 2010
Spread from Vine Deloria, Jr.'s essay "The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper."

The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper

An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.
by Vine Deloria Jr. via Art In America on July 1, 1972

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