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Legacies of the Sagebrush Rebellion
A conversation about the roots of organized resistance to federal regulation of public lands in the American West.
by
Robert Lundberg
,
Alexandra Lakind
,
Jonathan P. Thompson
via
Edge Effects
on
November 10, 2020
Walking Into New Worlds
Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache.
by
Karen Coates
via
Archaeology Magazine
on
October 1, 2020
partner
"Heroes of Our America": Reading a "Patriotic" History of the United States
This 1952 textbook serves as an example of the "patriotic history" that Donald Trump grew up with and calls for today.
by
Alan J. Singer
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HNN
on
September 27, 2020
partner
Political Debates: What Unforgettable Moments Reveal
High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?
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Retro Report
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September 24, 2020
Trump’s Vision for American History Education Is a Nightmare
But it’s one historians know all too well.
by
L. D. Burnett
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Slate
on
September 18, 2020
The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone
Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage.
by
Mali Obomsawin
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Boston Globe Magazine
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September 15, 2020
partner
How Americans Were Taught to Understand Israel
Leon Uris's bestselling book "Exodus" portrayed the founding of the state of Israel in terms many Americans could relate to.
by
Amy Kaplan
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Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
on
August 29, 2020
Many Tulsa Massacres
How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence.
by
Anna-Lisa Cox
,
Christy Clark-Pujara
via
National Museum of American History
on
August 25, 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
The Black Legend Lives
A review of "Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest."
by
Jeremy Beer
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Commonweal
on
July 1, 2020
The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy”
The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.
by
Bruce Bartlett
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The New Republic
on
June 29, 2020
American Fascism: It Has Happened Here
Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.
by
Sarah Churchwell
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New York Review of Books
on
June 22, 2020
What Liberty Meant to the Pilgrims
Most adult men could aspire to participation in the religious and political government of the colony. But this communal liberty did not imply personal liberty.
by
Nathanael Blake
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National Review
on
June 18, 2020
Rewriting Country Music's Racist History
Artists like Yola and Rhiannon Giddens are blowing up what Giddens calls a “manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.”
by
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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Rolling Stone
on
June 5, 2020
Cast in Iron?
Rethinking our historical monuments.
by
Jaime Fuller
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AdirondackLife
on
June 1, 2020
The Inner Life of American Communism
Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.
by
Corey Robin
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The Nation
on
May 5, 2020
Exodus: Vaera
For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.
by
Len Gutkin
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Jewish Currents
on
April 30, 2020
Racism After Redlining
In "Race for Profit," Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor walks us through the ways racist housing policy survived the abolition of redlining.
by
N. D. B. Connolly
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Black Perspectives
on
April 21, 2020
The Remembered Past
On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.
by
Lewis H. Lapham
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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December 14, 2019
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The War Documentary That Never Was
John Huston's 1945 movie The Battle of San Pietro presents itself as a war documentary, but contains staged scenes. What should we make of it?
by
Kristin Hunt
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JSTOR Daily
on
December 5, 2019
Why It’s Time To Retire The Whitewashed Western
The original cowboys were actually Indigenous, Black and Latinx, but that's not what Hollywood has generally led us to believe.
by
Inez Franco
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BESE
on
October 24, 2019
Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood
A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
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The Atlantic
on
July 18, 2019
California, an Island?
Meet cartography's most persistent mistake.
by
Frank Jacobs
via
Big Think
on
July 7, 2019
Signs of Return
Photography as History in the U.S. South.
by
Grace Elizabeth Hale
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Southern Cultures
on
April 1, 2019
partner
How New York’s New Monument Whitewashes the Women’s Rights Movement
It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.
by
Martha S. Jones
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Made by History
on
March 22, 2019
Counter-Histories of the Internet
Our ethics and desires can shape digital networks at least as forcefully as those networks influence us.
by
Marta Figlerowicz
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Public Books
on
February 25, 2019
How Slavery Made the Modern Scotland
A new documentary lays bare just how central a role Scotland played in the slave trade.
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The Herald
on
November 4, 2018
The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'
It wasn't simply a matter of getting the history right.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
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Made By History
on
October 5, 2018
The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.
by
Carlos Kevin Blanton
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Texas Monthly
on
September 21, 2018
The Long View: Surveillance, the Internet, and Government Research
A new book says “the Internet was developed as a weapon and remains a weapon today.” Does the charge hold up?
by
Eric Gade
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
June 28, 2018
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