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Collage of American Indian film characters.

Native Americans on the Silver Screen, From Wild West Shows to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

How American Indians in Hollywood have gone from stereotypes to starring roles.

by Sandra Hale Schulman via Smithsonian on October 12, 2023

Madame Restell

‘Hag of Misery’

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

by Susan Faludi via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2023

An open textbook.

The Right-Wing Textbooks Shaping What Americans Know

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

by Adam Laats via Made By History on October 11, 2023

Portraits of Isabella Graham and Catherine Ferguson

Where Are the Women? Past Choices That Shaped the Historical Record

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.

by Amanda Bowie Moniz via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2023

Freedpeople sit at Foller’s House in Cumberland Landing, Va., 1862.

If “Woke” Dies, Our Nation’s Truths Die with It

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

by Tera W. Hunter via Hammer & Hope on August 30, 2023

Africa, the Center of History

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

by Adom Getachew via New York Review of Books on July 27, 2023

Group of freedmen and women posing for a picture.

How Could ‘Freedmen’ Be a Race-Neutral Term?

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on July 7, 2023

Illustration of the Battle of Little Big Horn.

The True History of 'Custer's Last Stand'

We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on June 25, 2023

Entrance to the Texas State Cemetery.

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

Cliff Joseph's art, Blackboard, 1969. One adult and one young Black person stand in front of a blackboard.

The Long War on Black Studies

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via New York Review of Books on June 17, 2023

Joshua Houston leads a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, circa 1900.

Juneteenth, Jim Crow

How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.

by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Zachary Montz via The Conversation on June 16, 2023

Empty, dimly lit interior of shopping mall.

Nostalgia's Empire

We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.

by Grafton Tanner, Johny Pitts via Public Books on June 8, 2023

Hayden White from the cover of "The Ethics of Narrative."

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

Artwork of Sojourner Truth, against a background of newspaper articles for women's rights.

The Truth About Sojourner Truth

She was a woman, but she was not the author of the speech attributed to her in popular lore.

by Mary Cuff via Law & Liberty on May 26, 2023

Artwork of Sacagawea, surrounded by yellow flowers.

Getting Sacagawea Right

New evidence suggests that Sacagawea had a longer life than most historians have believed — fifty-seven years longer.

by Thomas Powers via New York Review of Books on May 18, 2023

A techno DJ.

The Battle Over Techno’s Origins

A museum dedicated to techno music has opened in Frankfurt, Germany, and many genre pioneers feel that Black and queer artists in Detroit have been overlooked.

by T. M. Brown via The New Yorker on April 14, 2023

Illustration of McCormick at his desk, hunched over a typewriter.

Hellhounds on His Trail

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.

by Michael Hall via Texas Monthly on April 4, 2023

A Known and Unknown War

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

by Michael Brenes via Contingent on March 20, 2023

Map of Jamaica.

Revisiting Restoration

Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.

by Jonah Estess via Commonplace on March 1, 2023

Ron Desantis, his face partially covered by books, with soft gold lighting on his face and the book spines

The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

by David Waldstreicher via The Atlantic on February 22, 2023

David Grim's map showing the damage that New York City suffered from two large fires.

David Grim’s Fairy Tale: The New York City Fire In Myth

We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.

by Benjamin L. Carp via The Gotham Center on February 15, 2023

Robet Kagan resting his head in his hands in a contemplative position, with a dark red background

Robert Kagan and Interventionism’s Big Reboot

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on February 14, 2023

Photo of Lynne Cheney superimposed over a photo of Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis and the Specter of Lynne Cheney

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.

by Steven Conn via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 8, 2023

A crowd gathers in the Florida Capitol with “Stop the Black Attack” signs.

Conservatives Want To Control What Kids Learn, But It May Backfire

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

by Adam Laats via Made By History on February 7, 2023

Statue of the "Spirit of Wyoming," a bucking horse with its rider, outside of the Capitol Building in Cheyenne.

The Fight for Accurate Western History is about Inclusion Today

Distortions in Western history have long obscured the region’s Black communities.

by Anthony W. Wood via Made By History on February 2, 2023

Benjamin Franklin, circa 1785.

AI Chatbot Mimics Anyone in History — But Gets a Lot Wrong, Experts Say

A chatbot billed as an educational tool falsely portrays historical figures, including dictators and Nazis, as apologetic for their crimes.

by Daniel Wu via Washington Post on January 31, 2023

George Kennan.

George Kennan’s False Moves

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on January 12, 2023

Ken Burns speaking into a microphone.

Shaming Americans

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

by Amity Shlaes via City Journal on January 9, 2023

Bayard Rustin gestures at a zoning map.

Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn’t Save Us Then Either

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

by Adolph Reed Jr. via Nonsite on January 8, 2023

Unionists in East Tennessee Swear Loyalty to the Union Flag in 1862.

Remembering Southern Unionists

Confederate monuments helped to erase the history of those white and black southerners who remained loyal and were willing to give their lives to save the United States.

by Kevin M. Levin via Civil War Memory on December 28, 2022

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