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Was Indian Removal Genocidal?

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Panorama on August 4, 2020
French military marching in practice for the Bastille Day Parade.
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The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on July 14, 2020

Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans

Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Atlantic on April 29, 2020
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The Revolutions

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.
via Future Of America's Past on March 16, 2020

American Torture

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via Aeon on February 20, 2020

The Shameful Final Grievance of the Declaration of Independence

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Atlantic on February 8, 2020
Fish in water next to rocks at the base of Kinzua Dam

Halted Waters

The Seneca Nation and the building of the Kinzua Dam.
by Maria Diaz-Gonzalez via Belt Magazine on January 30, 2020

The Little Ice Age Is a History of Resilience and Surprises

The world's last climate crisis demonstrates that surviving is possible if bold economic and social change is embraced.
by Dagomar Degroot via Aeon on November 11, 2019

Can Colonial Nations Truly Recognise the Sovereignty of Indigenous People?

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?
by Pekka Hämäläinen via Aeon on October 2, 2019

No Man’s Land

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 10, 2019

Between War and Water: Saratoga Springs and Veteran Health after the First World War

The First World War prompted the politicization of nearly all aspects of American life.
by Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on September 20, 2018
A sculpture depicting George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta staring at each other.

‘Our Father, the President’

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.
by Susan Dunn via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2018

Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.
by Heidi Zimmer, Dan Ward via Digital Public Library of America on January 1, 2018

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
Drawing of Native Americans on a boat

Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.
by Adam Nadeau via Borealia: Early Canadian History on June 27, 2016
1675 map of New England

Cross-Cultural Colonial Conflicts

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Adena Barnette via Digital Public Library of America on January 15, 2016

Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever

Down and dirty in eighteenth-century London and Boston.
by Roger D. Abrahams via Commonplace on January 1, 2008
Portrait of George Washington

Conotocarious

When Native Americans met George Washington in 1753, they called him by the Algonquian name "Conotocarious," meaning "town taker" or "devourer of villages."
via The Digital Encyclopedia Of George Washington

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