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Defense Department map of showing the U.S. within missile range from Cuba.

The Lost History of Latin America’s Role in Averting Catastrophe During the Cuban Missile Crisis

A common US-centric narrative holds that the crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.

by Renata Keller via The Conversation on October 24, 2025

The Erie Canal near Little Falls, New York, c. 1905.

363 Miles That Transformed America

The Erie Canal, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.

by George F. Will via Washington Post on October 22, 2025

Brandenburg Gate

The Historical Precedents for Trump’s Gaza Plan

After two years of war and tens of thousands of casualties, Israel and Hamas have accepted a peace plan put forward by US President Donald Trump.

by Heather Penatzer via Compact on October 10, 2025

Edit of different mayoral candidates distored to spiral

Fusionism Has Never Worked. Democrats Keep Trying Anyway.

Mamdani’s NYC mayoral rise revives debates over Democratic fusionism, echoing 1890s Populist struggles with establishment power.

by Zeb Larson via Dame Magazine on September 4, 2025

Part of the Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, British Museum.

The Origins of the West

Georgios Varouxakis reexamines when and why people began to conceptualize "the West."

by Max Skjönsberg via Law & Liberty on August 25, 2025

A raccoon leaning against wood.

The Fascinating History of Raccoons in North American Culture, From Symbols to Pets to Dinner

In the relationship between humans and raccoons, the black-masked mammals have played many roles.

by Samuel Zeveloff via Smithsonian Magazine on May 29, 2025

A flooded road.

Jamestown Is Sinking

In the Tidewater region of Virginia, history is slipping beneath the waves. In the Anthropocene, a complicated past is vanishing.

by Daegan Miller, Greta Pratt via Places Journal on March 15, 2025

Front cover of the 1940 issue Anvil by John C. Rogers showing a muscular man in bold red strokes.

Anvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland Marxism

Anvil's popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.

by Marc Blanc via Jacobin on February 23, 2025

New Yorker magazine from November 17, 1962, open to Baldwin's essay.

On James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

by Kevin Young via The New Yorker on February 10, 2025

Print depicting a teacher and students at a freedmen's school in Vicksburg.

Why America’s First Department of Education Didn’t Last

Created in 1867, the short-lived office was mired in the ongoing American strife after the Civil War.

by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on February 4, 2025

A painting of Roland G. Hazard.

The Hazards of Slavery

Scott Spillman reviews Seth Rockman’s “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery.”

by Scott Spillman via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 2, 2024

Men on horses and with swords exploring the a canyon.

Scratching the Surface

How geology shaped American culture.

by Jacob Mikanowski via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 20, 2024

A painting of a Civil War battle.

New Estimates of US Civil War Mortality from Full-Census Records

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in US history. However, incomplete records have made it difficult to estimate the exact death toll.

by Joan Barceló, Jeffrey L. Jensen, Leonid Peisakhin, Haoyu Zhai via Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 18, 2024

Children smile and wave flags at a Farmer-Labor Party demonstration, circa 1920.

The Rise and Fall of Midwest Populism

When the Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party merged into the Democratic machine, its populist energies were chewed up and spat out.

by Patrick Greeley via Jacobin on November 11, 2024

How Trump’s Red Wave Builds on the Past

Donald’s Trump’s resounding 2024 victory echoes electoral shifts of the past.

via Retro Report on November 8, 2024

View of mountains on the horizon

Who Owns the Mountains?

Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land — and tourism — in Appalachia.

by Olivia Paschal via New York Review of Books on November 3, 2024

Trump holding a table of tariff rates.

Tariffs Don’t Have to Make Economic Sense to Appeal to Trump Voters

Economists and Democrats dismiss Trump’s tariffs talk at their peril.

by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on October 24, 2024

A variety of apples on a rustic wooden table.

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why

Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good.

by Laura Helmuth via Scientific American on October 24, 2024

Talc and soapstone statue from North Carolina.

Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

Tales of strange, nocturnal people haunt the region—and so do theories about who they were, from a lost Welsh "tribe" to aliens.

by Hadley Meares via Atlas Obscura on October 22, 2024

Drawing of the Constitutional Convention, by John W. Winkler.

Strange Political Bedfellows

The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.

by Mark McKibbin, Denver Brunsman via HNN on October 9, 2024

Eroticize the Hood

A new book revamps Newark's reputation as unsexy, violent, destitute, defiantly declaring it “a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.”

by José Sanchez via n+1 on October 8, 2024

Bill Clinton meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in the White House.

How Qatar Became a Major Middle East Power Broker

The history behind the country's role as a key American ally that also maintains warm relations with Iran and others.

by Allen Fromherz via Made By History on September 30, 2024

A postcard showing five women in colorful dresses playing and singing in Ybor City

Race & Gender in the Latinx South

Two new books make the case that “when and where you are Latino matters.”

by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez via Southern Spaces on September 10, 2024

Tourists on a ferry sailing along the coast of Maine.

A Picture-Book Guide to Maine

Children’s stories set on the coast suggest a wilder way of life.

by Anna E. Holmes via The New Yorker on September 8, 2024

The Forebears of J.D. Vance and the New Right

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

by Olivia Paschal via HNN on September 3, 2024

President Eisenhower sitting beside President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, September 26, 1960

The Foreign Policy Mistake the U.S. Keeps Repeating in the Middle East

In 2024, the U.S. faces some of the same challenges in the region that it did in 1954.

by Jordan Michael Smith via The New Republic on August 2, 2024

A painting of a crowd of people heading through gates labeled Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.

Fog From Harlem: Recovering a New Negro Renaissance in the American Midwest

How the focus on Harlem obfuscated Black culture in the Midwest.

by Sam Thozer via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on June 19, 2024

Croton aqueduct.

Testing the Waters in Gotham

The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink.

by Liviu Chelcea via Public Seminar on March 20, 2024

A photograph of George Washington Cable with Mark Twain.

The Dying Pelican

Romanticism, local color, and nostalgic New Orleans.

by Eleanor Stern via 64 Parishes on February 29, 2024

Archival map of the U.S.-Mexico border region near Mexicali, Mexico. Displays the Colorado River Delta system

A Cartography of Loss in the Borderlands

Mexicali’s "Colorado River Family Album" documents what is no more.

by Caroline Tracey via High Country News on February 21, 2024

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