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Jacob Lawrence.

Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.

by Rachel Himes via Jacobin on February 4, 2021

Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Against the Consensus Approach to History

How not to learn about the American past.

by William Hogeland via The New Republic on January 25, 2021

Biden in the Oval Office signing executive actions

Biden Rescinding the 1776 Commission Doesn't End the Fight over History

The 1776 Commission marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down meaningful conversation about racism.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on January 21, 2021

The Puritans Are Alright

A review of "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America."

by Ed Simon via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 16, 2020

Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud in a formal portrait arranged by William Blackmore, whose hand is visible at right

The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

by David Treuer via New York Review of Books on November 11, 2020

A man sitting at a table

Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.

by Charlotte Rosen via The Nation on November 3, 2020

Jessica Serifilippi inside the Schuyler Mansion

Schuyler Mansion Works to Bring Clarity to Alexander Hamilton’s Role as Enslaver

Throughout his career, Hamilton acted as a middleman for his family and friends to purchase enslaved people.

by Indiana Nash via The Daily Gazette on October 24, 2020

Benjamin Tillman statue

American History Is Getting Whitewashed, Again

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.

by Kali Holloway via The Nation on October 2, 2020

Abraham Lincoln

Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020

What Trump Is Missing About American History

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

by Leslie M. Harris, Karin Wulf via Politico Magazine on September 20, 2020

Donald Trump in front of Mount Rushmore

Trump’s Vision for American History Education Is a Nightmare

But it’s one historians know all too well.

by L. D. Burnett via Slate on September 18, 2020

How U.S. History Is Taught Has Always Been Political

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 17, 2020

Why Bill Clinton Attacked Stokely Carmichael

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

by Amandla Thomas-Johnson via Jacobin on August 6, 2020

History, Civil Rights and the Original Cancel Culture

The initial movement to build memorials to the Confederacy and its supposed “lost cause” were the original cancel culture.

by Keri Leigh Merritt, Chris Richardson via The Hill on August 4, 2020

Racist Litter

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on July 30, 2020

Ground Zero: The Gettysburg National Military Park, July 4, 2020

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

by Jennifer M. Murray via Muster on July 20, 2020

Why We’ll Never Stop Arguing About Hamilton

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

by Aja Romano via Vox on July 3, 2020

Collage of military uniforms and a Confederate general over a photo of troops training on a military base.

The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy

Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?

by Michael Paradis via The Atlantic on June 26, 2020

A political cartoon

The New Deal and Recovery

In the series of posts to follow, I hope to introduce my readers to evidence casting doubt on the view that New Deal programs ended the Great Depression.

by George Selgin via Alt-M on June 12, 2020

Is Capitalism Racist?

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 18, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

A War for Settler Colonialism

Refocusing the study of the Civil War on the West shows that events out west were not simply “noteworthy”; they were emblematic.

by Paul Barba via Muster on March 3, 2020

Illustration of Lincoln consulting with military figures in a tent.

Did Lincoln Really Matter?

What the Civil War tells us about who has the power to shape history.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on February 10, 2020

1619 and All That

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

by Alex Lichtenstein via American Historical Review on February 3, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020

How Biden Kept Screwing Up Iraq—Over and Over and Over Again

Biden didn’t just vote to authorize the Iraq war for “peace and security.” He got it wrong at every stage.

by Spencer Ackerman via The Daily Beast on December 19, 2019

Preaching a Conspiracy Theory

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

by Allen C. Guelzo via City Journal on December 8, 2019

Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on December 2, 2019

The Life and Times of Franz Boas

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

by Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2019

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