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Ada “Bricktop” Smith (far left) seated at table with other women, the New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1920 – 1929 (Courtesy of the Schomburg Center).

Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts

Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.
by Ashley D. Farmer, Tanisha C. Ford via Black Perspectives on May 31, 2022
Franz Boas adopts the pose of a wild Hamat̓sa, crouching with outstretched arms and mouth open.

On the Influence of Indigenous Knowledge on Modern Thought

We often associate dance with art and performance, but it is also a way that humans document, interpret, and create history.
by Isaiah Lorado Wilner, Nuala P. Caomhánach via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on February 28, 2022
Portrait of William Small, by Tilly Kettle, c. 1765.
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The Revolution Whisperer

The overlooked first mentor of Thomas Jefferson.
by Greg Shaw via HNN on February 20, 2022
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Best History Writing of 2021

Bunk's American History Top 40.
by Tony Field on January 26, 2022
Capitol rotunda dome.

The Changing Same of U.S. History

Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.
by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on November 10, 2021
Painting of the Parthenon by Frederic Edwin Church

A Story of Use and Abuse

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.
by Arlene W. Saxonhouse via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 28, 2021

The Rise of the Elite Anti-Intellectual

For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.
by Simon Brown via Dissent on August 20, 2021
A newspaper drawing of the Nat Turner Rebellion.

Looking for Nat Turner

A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.
by Alberto Toscano via Boston Review on June 29, 2021
Embarkation of the Pilgrims.

Puritanism as a State of Mind

Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.
by Glen A. Moots via Law & Liberty on April 30, 2021
A mosaic of freedom and associated ideas

How Americans Lost Their Fervor for Freedom

The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."
by Evan Kindley via The New Republic on April 14, 2021
Robert Mundell receives the Nobel Prize in economics from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, in 1999.

Remembering the Father of Supply-Side Economics

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.
by Bruce Bartlett via The New Republic on April 7, 2021
Robin D.G. Kelley

The Future of L.A. Is Here

On L.A. solidarity and the Black radical tradition.
by Robin D. G. Kelley, Vinson Cunningham via Los Angeles Times on March 17, 2021

How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on December 9, 2020
A white picket fence

Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.
by David R. Roediger via Literary Hub on September 28, 2020

How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 11, 2020

Charismatic Models

There is, and always has been, a vanishingly thin line between charismatic democratic rulers and charismatic authoritarians.
by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 26, 2020
Man at Trump rally holding a "Latinos for Trump" sign.

On the Past and Future of Hispanic Republicans

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”
by Geraldo Cadava, Rosina Lozano via Public Books on June 15, 2020

A Motley Crew for our Times?

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.
by Marcus Rediker, Martina Tazzioli via Radical Philosophy on May 1, 2020

Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

A conversation with Breanne Fahs on the lasting lessons of women's anger.
by Soraya Chemaly, Breanne Fah via Literary Hub on March 24, 2020

Why We Should Remember William Monroe Trotter

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.
by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on December 29, 2019

Story-Shaped Things

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.
by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on October 16, 2019
Political cartoon lampooning Thomas Paine and his beliefs

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.
by Ed Simon via The Revealer on December 20, 2018

Network Visualisations Show What We Can and What We May Know

On the intellectual history of the lines and arrows that have become a standard feature of the news media.
by Christopher Warren via Aeon on June 18, 2018

Human Rights and Neoliberalism

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?
by Nils Gilman via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 8, 2018

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

The bestselling guru's ancient wisdom is unmistakably modern – a disturbing symptom of the social malaise he sets out to cure.
by Pankaj Mishra via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will

Why French revolutionaries, in need of an image to represent the all important “will of the people”, turned to the thunderbolt.
by Kevin Duong via The Public Domain Review on November 9, 2017

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017
Walden Pond through the trees.

Darwin's Early Adopters

A new book argues that Darwin failed to capture the American imagination because of the untimely death of Henry David Thoreau.
by John Hay via Public Books on April 5, 2017

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