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How Oscar Micheaux Challenged the Racism of Early Hollywood

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like "The Birth of a Nation."

by Anna Siomopoulos, Kristin Hunt, Richard Grupenhoff via JSTOR Daily on October 3, 2019

Lines in the Sand

Ed Ayers visits with public historians in Texas and explores what's wrong with remembering the Alamo as the beginning of Texas history.

via Future Of America's Past on August 15, 2019

Against the Great Man Theory of Historians

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jacobin on June 12, 2019

How the South Won the Civil War

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 1, 2019

Francis Fukuyama

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

by Maximillian Alvarez via Boston Review on March 22, 2019

1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.

by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 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 via Texas Monthly on September 21, 2018

The Issue on the Table: Is 'Hamilton' Good for History?

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.

by Kate Keller via Smithsonian on May 30, 2018

What America Gets Wrong About Three Important Words in the Second Amendment

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."

by Robyn Pennacchia via Quartz on February 24, 2018

How White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest's Mysterious Mounds

Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.

by Sarah E. Baires via Zócalo Public Square on February 22, 2018

Seeing Martin Luther King as a Human Being

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.

by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on January 15, 2018

Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The Paris Review on January 15, 2018

The South Only Embraced States' Rights as It Lost Control of the Federal Government

For decades, slaveholders were powerfully committed to the Union. That changed when Washington stopped protecting their interests.

by W. Caleb McDaniel via The Atlantic on November 1, 2017

Our Cold War World

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on October 30, 2017

Reagan signing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

by Vesla M. Weaver via Boston Review on October 24, 2017

Five Types of Gun Laws the Founding Fathers Loved

A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.

by Saul Cornell via The Conversation on October 15, 2017

The American Revolution Revisited

A nation divided, even at birth.

via The Economist on June 29, 2017

Confederate or Not, Which Monuments Should Stay or Go? We Asked, You Answered.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

via Washington Post on June 6, 2017

How the ‘Hamilton Effect’ Distorts the Founders

Too often, we look to history not to understand it, but to seek out confirmation for our preexisting beliefs. That’s a problem.

by Mike Lee via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017

What Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Understand About Slavery

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 28, 2016

Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.

An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.

by Annette Gordon-Reed, Richard Kreitner, Peter S. Onuf via Boston Review on May 19, 2016

A Hamilton Skeptic on Why the Show Isn’t As Revolutionary As It Seems

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."

by Lyra Monteiro, Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 5, 2016

Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015

Smiling porcelain salt and pepper shaker figures called "the Pilgrim Pair," and their children, "Lilgrims," atop two academic books about Puritan history entitled "The Barbarous Years" and "Seasons of Misery."

Come On, Lilgrim

The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.

by Jonathan Beecher Field via Commonplace on December 16, 2015

Shades of green.

Green Sprigs of Courage

How the mythologizing of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade helped dispel anti-Irish sentiment.

via BackStory on March 3, 2015

Our Mis-Leading Indicators

How statistical data came to rule public policy.

by Stephen Macekura via Public Books on September 15, 2014

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

by H. W. Brands via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 1, 2012

A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.

Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?

via BackStory on May 21, 2010

"Sunrise at Northport Harbor" painting by Arthur Dove.

Unpopular Front

American art and the Cold War.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on October 9, 2005

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Great Depression

Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.

by Joshua Wolf Shenk via The Atlantic on October 1, 2005

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