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A Military 1st: A Supercarrier is Named After an African-American Sailor

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

by Jay Price via NPR on September 29, 2020

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

Want to Save the Humanities? Make College Free

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.

by David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on May 9, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A hundred years at the edge of empire.

by Stephen Benz via Literary Hub on January 30, 2019

U.S. Base hospital No. 13, Dansville, NY, with porches and awnings over open windows.

Neuro-Psychiatry and Patient Protest in First World War American Hospitals

Though their wishes were often overshadowed, soldier-patients had voices.

by Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on November 7, 2018

The First Floridians

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

by Jordan Blumetti via The Bitter Southerner on September 3, 2018

Southerners Tore Down Silent Sam. Now Northerners Need to Tear Down Confederate Flags.

Each one flown outside the slave states amounts to an admission that the flag represents whiteness, not Southernness.

by Alex Pareene via HuffPost on August 29, 2018

The Silent Type

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on May 6, 2018

The History Department Bracket Is Here and It Has Tenure

There isn’t much turnover with these selections.

by Russ Oates via SBNation.com on March 13, 2018

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.

by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation on January 31, 2018

Why Do We Salute Volunteer Soldiers but Scorn Professional Warriors?

Since the Mexican-American War, Army regulars haven't always been treated as heroes.

by Peter Guardino via Zócalo Public Square on January 5, 2018

Civil War Life in all its Day-to-Day Contrasts

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.

by James Oakes via Washington Post on October 27, 2017

Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017

When Cardigans Were Battle Attire

Your favorite light sweater was worn to war, before getting picked up by academics, Mr. Rogers, and Kurt Cobain.

by Jennifer Le Zotte via Racked on October 3, 2017

Two American soldiers in Pleiku, South Vietnam, home to an American airbase in May 1967.

Studying the Vietnam War

How the scholarship has changed.

by Mark Atwood Lawrence via Humanities on September 16, 2017

Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

via Equal Justice Initiative on November 11, 2016

Antiwar protest against the Vietnam War outside the White House.

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.

by Jon Wiener via The Nation on April 15, 2015

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800

For decades, historians believed that the Department's files had been lost forever. Now copies of those files are available in this searchable digital archive.

via Roy Rosenzweig Center For History & New Media on January 1, 2011

A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007

The Good War on Terror

To fully understand what has gone wrong since 9/11, it is necessary to rewind the tape to that moment just before.

by Chris Hayes via In These Times on September 8, 2006

Henry Ford, the Wayside Inn, and the Problem of 'History Is Bunk'

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.

by Roger Butterfield via Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society on June 1, 1965

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