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Who Gets to Tell the Story?

Christine Blasey Ford, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, and battles over America's history.
by Rachel Wheeler via Made By History on October 17, 2018

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Literary Hub on September 27, 2018
Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn’s Anti-Textbook

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.
by Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 16, 2018

Canon Fodder

Where's the country music on Pitchfork's Best Albums of the 1980s?
by Shuja Haider via Popula on September 13, 2018

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review

A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.
by Robinson Meyer, Ashley Fetters via The Atlantic on September 6, 2018

Aquarius Rising

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on September 6, 2018

When Slavery Is Erased From Plantations

Some historical sites have struggled to reconcile founding-era exceptionalism with the true story of America’s original sin.
by Talitha L. LeFlouria via The Atlantic on September 2, 2018

The Triangle Shirtwaist Memorialist

Remembering victims of one of the worst workplace disasters in American history.
by Jeremiah Moss via New York Review of Books on August 31, 2018

United Daughters of the Confederacy & White Supremacy

In an open letter, an encyclopedia editor stands behind the use of the term "white supremacy" to describe the UDC's work.
by Brendan Wolfe via Encyclopedia Virginia on August 30, 2018
James Longstreet's daughter visits his statue at Gettysburg.
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The Missing Statues That Expose the Truth About Confederate Monuments

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.
by Kevin Waite via Made By History on August 29, 2018

Reconsidering Rudyard Kipling

Was the author and poet best known for 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim' truly a racist imperialist?
by John Rossi via The American Conservative on August 22, 2018
Black and white girls in a classroom.

The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.
by Vanessa Siddle Walker, Melinda D. Anderson via The Atlantic on August 9, 2018

Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

A review of Stephen Brumwell's most recent book.
by John Knight via Journal of the American Revolution on July 2, 2018
Chinese premier Zhou Enlai and Indonesian president Sukarno aboard a cruise on the Nile River, Cairo, July 1965.

The Truth About the Killing Fields

A trio of books depict the true narrative of the massacres within Indonesia in 1965.
by Margaret Scott via New York Review of Books on June 28, 2018
Marsha Johnson

Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)

Why it's important to know that Marsha P. Johnson did not start the riots at Stonewall.
by R. E. Fulton via Nursing Clio on June 26, 2018

Where Does the War on History End?

Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.
by Tony Parsons via British GQ on June 21, 2018

Jefferson’s Monticello Finally Gives Sally Hemings Her Place in Presidential History

New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 13, 2018

Robert F. Kennedy Is Remembered as a Liberal Icon. Here's the Truth About His Politics

For many American liberals, RFK became a symbol of not just a better past, but also a better future that might have been.
by David E. Kaiser via TIME on June 5, 2018

The Bobby Kennedy Myth

Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 5, 2018

The Persistence of Whitewashing

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?
by Jason Silverstein via The New Republic on May 31, 2018
Cover of "First Martyr of Liberty," featuring a painting of Crispus Attucks facing a British soldier with a bayonet.

Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.
by Mitch Kachun, Stephen G. Hall via Black Perspectives on May 30, 2018

There Is Power in a Union

A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.
by Mike Konczal via The Nation on May 23, 2018
Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Is No Libertarian

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.
by Maurice S. Lee via Public Books on May 18, 2018

The Silent Type

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on May 6, 2018
Inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, AL.
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How the New Monument to Lynching Unravels a Historical Lie

Lies about history long protected lynching.
by Nina Silber via Made By History on May 2, 2018

The Internet Women Made

Claire L. Evans’s new book is a bittersweet reminder that the internet used to be freer and more fun.
by Anna Wiener via The New Republic on May 1, 2018
Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Roy Wilkins, and Lyndon Johnson.

Misremembering 1968

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.
by Robert Greene II via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on April 24, 2018

Martin Luther King: How a Rebel Leader Was Lost to History

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?
by Gary Younge via The Guardian on April 4, 2018
A picture of the White House

Forget About It

Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.
by Corey Robin via Harper's on April 1, 2018

When Bobby Decided to Run

This weekend is the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s fateful decision to enter the 1968 presidential race. What if he hadn’t?
by Jeff Greenfield via Politico Magazine on March 17, 2018
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