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Did We Really Need to Drop the Bomb?
American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.
by
Paul Ham
via
American Heritage
on
August 6, 2023
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
“Who controls the past,” George Orwell wrote, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” So it has been with baseball.
by
John Thorn
via
Our Game
on
July 17, 2023
Impossible Systems: On Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland”
The visa lottery reveals the inherent myths and contradictions at play in the US immigration system.
by
Tim Hirschel-Burns
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 13, 2023
The Underground Railroad Was the Ultimate Conspiracy to Southern Enslavers
And justified the most extreme responses.
by
Colin Dickey
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Atlas Obscura
on
July 11, 2023
It's Time to Defend the History of All Texans
The way we learn about our collective past is under attack thanks to new leadership at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).
by
John R. Lundberg
via
The Texas Observer
on
June 21, 2023
Do Cartels Exist?
A revisionist view of the drug wars.
by
Rachel Nolan
via
Harper's
on
June 20, 2023
The Disgraced Confederate History of the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Flag
The Gadsden flag has reemerged as a provocative antigovernmental symbol, including at the Capitol riot and on license plates. Confederates once loved it, too.
by
Laura Brodie
via
Retropolis
on
June 14, 2023
Meet Thomas Jefferson
Portraying a 19th-century president.
by
C. J. Bartunek
via
Oxford American
on
June 6, 2023
The Ironic Radical: On Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative”
The kinds of narratives historians tend to fall back on constrain our ability to imagine alternatives to the way things have been, and to the way things are.
by
Michael S. Roth
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
June 2, 2023
Jackie Robinson Was More Than a Baseball Player
Jackie Robinson is popularly portrayed as the man who broke baseball’s color line by quietly enduring racist abuse. But that narrative is much too narrow.
by
Michael Arria
,
David Naze
via
Jacobin
on
May 12, 2023
“Originalist” Arguments Against Gun Control Get U.S. History Completely Wrong
Gun control is actually an American tradition.
by
Mary C. Curtis
,
Robert J. Spitzer
via
Slate
on
May 3, 2023
History Bright and Dark
Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?
by
Adam Hochschild
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 2, 2023
Hellhounds on His Trail
Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.
by
Michael Hall
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Texas Monthly
on
April 4, 2023
Slavery and the Guardian: The Ties That Bind Us
There is an illusion at the centre of British history that conceals the role of slavery in building the nation. Here’s how I fell for it.
by
David Olusoga
via
The Guardian
on
March 28, 2023
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Was She Really Rosie?
The unlikely, true story of the Westinghouse “We Can Do It” work-incentive poster that became an international emblem of women’s empowerment.
by
Michelle C. Smith
via
JSTOR Daily
on
March 15, 2023
A View of American History That Leads to One Conclusion
For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.
by
George Packer
via
The Atlantic
on
March 8, 2023
1910s Cannabis Discourse and Prohibition
Does marijuana prohibition have racist origins? Where did ideas of “reefer madness” come from? This project looks to the historical record for answers.
by
Isaac Campos
via
The Drug Page
on
March 7, 2023
Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left
Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
via
Jacobin
on
February 20, 2023
When Perry Miller Invented America
In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.
by
Ed Simon
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
February 5, 2023
Life In The ’Burgh'
A Steel City bibliography of Pittsburgh.
by
Drew Simpson
,
Dan Holland
via
The Metropole
on
January 11, 2023
The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up
If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
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Paul M. Renfro
via
Slate
on
January 9, 2023
Have You Forgotten Him?
The “forgotten American” mythology of the POW/MIA movement continues to haunt our politics today.
by
John Thomason
via
The Baffler
on
December 14, 2022
The Long American Counter-Revolution
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
December 8, 2022
The Myth of the Knicks
In Chris Herring’s recent history of the New York basketball team, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the sports commentariat’s fixation on grit and toughness.
by
Zito Madu
via
The Nation
on
December 7, 2022
The Question of the Offensive Monument
A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.
by
Erin L. Thompson
via
The Nation
on
December 5, 2022
Mythmaking In Manhattan
Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.
by
Benjamin L. Carp
via
Age of Revolutions
on
December 5, 2022
Walkers and Lone Rangers: How Pop Culture Shaped the Texas Rangers Mythology
Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.
by
Sean O'Neal
via
Texas Monthly
on
November 16, 2022
No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
by
Eran Zelnik
via
The Activist History Review
on
November 8, 2022
America’s Mythology of Martin Luther
Luther is part myth, mascot, and mantle, symbolizing the hopes and sanctifying the heroes of American evangelicalism.
by
Obbie Tyler Todd
via
The Gospel Coalition
on
October 30, 2022
The Devil, the Delta, and the City
In search of the mythical blues—and their real urban origins.
by
Alan Pell Crawford
via
Modern Age
on
October 17, 2022
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