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African American medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their fists raised during the national anthem at the 1968 Olympics.

Reparation as Fantasy

Remembering the black-fisted silent protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

by Jamal Ratchford via Process: A Blog for American History on October 15, 2017

Pour One Out for Ulysses S. Grant

His presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on October 2, 2017

Thomas Jefferson and Us

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?

by David Sehat via William and Mary Quarterly on October 1, 2017

Defenders Of Confederate Monuments Keep Trying To Erase History

Claims that the Confederacy didn't fight to uphold slavery are disputed by Confederate generals themselves.

by Adam H. Domby via HuffPost on September 15, 2017

History is Not There to be Liked: On Historical Memory, Real and Fake

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.

by Jason Steinhauer via Foreign Policy Research Institute on September 15, 2017

Idylls of the Liberal

The American dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

by Asad Haider via Viewpoint Magazine on September 11, 2017

We Need a New Museum that Tells Us How We Came to Believe What We Believe

The answers are just as important as the stories that our history books tell.

by T. J. Stiles via HNN on August 27, 2017

More Than a Statue: Rethinking J. Marion Sims’ Legacy

The "father of U.S. gynecology" is usually depicted as either a monstrous butcher or a benevolent healer. It's not that simple.

by Deirdre Cooper Owens via Rewire on August 24, 2017

Where Donald Trump Learned His Tough Love for History

He professes admiration for "statues and monuments" but his family has a record of tearing down rather than preserving.

by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on August 24, 2017

Microphone hovers over a portrait of George Washington.

What Trump — And His Critics — Get Wrong About George Washington and Robert E. Lee

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

by Patrick Rael via Made By History on August 23, 2017

W. E. B. DuBois testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

No Excuses for a Racist Murderer

A 1928 essay by W.E.B. DuBois on the legacy of Robert E. Lee.

via In These Times on August 22, 2017

Presidential Revisionism

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

by Gautham Rao, Jed Handelsman Shugerman via Slate on July 17, 2017

Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.

by Daegan Miller via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 16, 2017

America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on July 4, 2017

Supporters of Confederate Symbols Have Less Knowledge of Civil War History

This negates a commonly used defense that Confederate symbols represent ‘heritage not hate’.

by Logan Strother, Thomas Ogorzalek, Spencer Piston via USAPP on July 3, 2017

Why the Civil War West Mattered – and Still Does

The West cared very much about the Civil War.

by Megan Kate Nelson via HistoryNet on June 30, 2017

At Its Core, the Declaration of Independence Was a Plea for Help From Britain’s Enemies

The intended audience for the document could be found in the royal houses of France and Spain.

by Larrie D. Ferreiro via Smithsonian on June 28, 2017

How "This Land Is Your Land" Went From Protest Song to Singalong

Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has lost a bit of its protest oomph—in part because of a decades-long denial of its later verses.

by Mark Allan Jackson, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on June 15, 2017

Jackson statue outside the White House.

Trump's Jacksonian Moment

A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.

by Richard White via Boston Review on June 7, 2017

Compare the Two Versions of Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech

Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?

by Leslie Podell via The Sojourner Truth Project on June 6, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017

Bureaucrats as Activists: A Revisionist Take on Conservation

Career bureaucrats in the Trump administration are proving that bureaucrats can be dedicated to a cause other than themselves.

by Benjamin Heber Johnson via Process: A Blog for American History on May 23, 2017

Trying to Remember J.F.K.

On the centenary of his birth, seeking the man behind the myth.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on May 22, 2017

A Continental soldier in the Revolutionary War holding a tattered American flag and standing on chains.

We Could Have Been Canada

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on May 8, 2017

Why There Was a Civil War

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.

by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on May 1, 2017

Let’s Not Pretend That ‘Hamilton’ Is History

America's founders have never enjoyed more sex appeal, but the hit Musical cheats audiences by making democracy look easy

by Nancy Isenberg via Zócalo Public Square on March 17, 2017

It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Historians Against Slavery on March 17, 2017

Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History

The eliding of the ugliness of America's racial history is neither novel nor particularly surprising.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on March 8, 2017

The Greatest Presidents

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.

by Robert W. Merry via The American Conservative on February 20, 2017

The Real Story Behind "Johnny Appleseed"

Johnny Appleseed was based on a real person, John Chapman, who was eccentric enough without the legends.

by Matthew Wills, William Kerrigan via JSTOR Daily on October 22, 2016

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