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We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.
by Michael Harriot via The Root on May 6, 2021
Peanuts, bagged and ready for transport, are stacked in pyramids at Kano, Northern Region, Nigeria, 1955.

After Slavery: How the End of Atlantic Slavery Paved a Path to Colonialism

Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement.
by Toby Green via Aeon on March 30, 2021
tattered Texas state flag

An Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.
by Casey Michel via The New Republic on March 12, 2021

John Muir in Native America

Muir's romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land—but a new generation is pulling away the veil.
by Rebecca Solnit via Sierra Club on March 2, 2021
Thaddeus Stevens

The Radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.
by Matthew E. Stanley via Jacobin on March 1, 2021
A group of five wealthy women in Victorian dress.

A Pool of One’s Own

Group biographies and the female friendship vogue.
by Noelle Bodick via The Drift on January 28, 2021
A drawing of the Boston Massacre.

Early American Urban Protests

Eric Hinderaker offers a masterclass in how to peel back the layers of data, scholarship, and propaganda to understand what we call the Boston Massacre.
by Bob Carey via The Metropole on January 19, 2021
William Tecumseh Sherman.

The Real Sherman

A new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman questions his reputation as the brutal "prophet of total war."
by Allen C. Guelzo via First Things on January 14, 2021
Postcard of Wilshire Boulevard

Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on January 11, 2021
One of Yellowstone's infamous hot springs.

The Lost History of Yellowstone

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
by Richard Grant via Smithsonian on January 5, 2021

The Real History of Race and the New Deal

Material benefits trumped FDR's terrible civil rights records.
by Matthew Yglesias via Slow Boring on December 11, 2020
Drawing of teacher colored red in front of blackboard, teaching two students sitting in desks

Did Communists Really Infiltrate American Schools?

Fears that teachers were indoctrinating kids were rampant in the 1950s. But the reality was more complicated.
by Erin Blakemore, Jonathan Hunt via JSTOR Daily on December 3, 2020
Statue of Kit Carson

The Removal of Monuments: What about Kit Carson?

The West and the nation need worthier, more honest memorials.
by Susan Lee Johnson via We're History on November 24, 2020
A picture of Trump going through a shredder.

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 16, 2020
Donald Trump giving a speech under a mural of the Founders.

White Evangelicals and the New American Exceptionalism of Donald Trump

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.
by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 29, 2020

The Problem in the Classroom

Any true reckoning with racism must include our schools.
by Jon Hale via The American Scholar on July 30, 2020
Phillis Wheatley

How Phillis Wheatley Was Recovered Through History

For decades, a white woman’s memoir shaped our understanding of America’s first Black poet. Does a new book change the story?
by Elizabeth Winkler via The New Yorker on July 30, 2020
Statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, knocked off its pedastal

whentheycamedown

A collaborative project that set out in the summer of 2020 to document the removal of monuments through both official and unofficial channels.
via whentheycamedown.com on July 1, 2020

Was El Monte Really Founded by White Pioneers?

A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.
by Steve Chiotakis via KCRW on June 24, 2020

The Power of Empty Pedestals

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.
by Gregory D. Smithers, Michael Dickinson via The Bitter Southerner on June 23, 2020
An illustration of a pilgrim looking toward the sky with a group of others gathered around kneeling.

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 via National Review on June 18, 2020
People looking at the Fat Man bomb covered with a tarp

What Journalists Should Know About the Atomic Bombings

As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.
by Alex Wellerstein via Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog on June 9, 2020

George Washington Would Have So Worn a Mask

The father of the country was a team player who had no interest in displays of hyper-masculinity.
by Maurizio Valsania via The Conversation on June 1, 2020

The Trouble with Comparisons

Comparison to Nazism and fascism distracts us from how we made Trump over decades.
by Samuel Moyn via New York Review of Books on May 19, 2020

FDR’s New Deal Worked. We Need Another One.

Claims that the programs adopted in the 1930s lengthened the Great Depression don’t hold up.
by Noah Smith via Bloomberg on May 15, 2020
Graffito picture of Richard Nixon superimposed on lines an German text.

Richard Nixon, Modular Man

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.
by Phil Christman via The Hedgehog Review on April 6, 2020

A New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.
by Amy Crawford via Smithsonian on January 1, 2020
Drawing of Puritans.

How Should We Remember the Puritans?

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.
by Andrew Delbanco via The Nation on November 18, 2019
partner

Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future

In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on November 3, 2019

Whiteout

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.
by Kevin Baker via Harper's on November 1, 2019
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