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The Historians Are Fighting
Inside the profession, the battle over the 1619 Project continues.
by
William Hogeland
via
Slate
on
October 30, 2021
The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington's Slave Roundup
History books remember Yorktown as a "victory for the right of self-determination." But the battle guaranteed slavery for nearly another century.
by
Gregory Urwin
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Journal of the American Revolution
on
October 19, 2021
A Deadly Introduction
Who was Henry Ellett? Looking at his grave you wouldn't know much about him.
by
Alexis Coe
via
Study Marry Kill
on
October 13, 2021
partner
Plant of the Month: The Pawpaw
The pawpaw is finding champions again after colonizers' dismissal, increasing globalization and economic needs.
by
Julia Fine
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JSTOR Daily
on
September 22, 2021
The Southern Slaveholders Dreamed of a Slaveholding Empire
Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.
by
Arvind Dilawar
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Kevin Waite
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Jacobin
on
September 21, 2021
partner
For Constitution Day, Let's Toast the Losers of the Convention
Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.
by
Richard Hall
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HNN
on
September 19, 2021
The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery
Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?
by
Latria Graham
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The Atlantic
on
September 16, 2021
Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow
Among P. T. Barnum's “human curiosities” was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exotic other.
by
Betsy Golden Kellem
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The Public Domain Review
on
September 16, 2021
How Joe Biden Became Irish
The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.
by
Ben Schreckinger
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Politico Magazine
on
September 14, 2021
The Man Behind Critical Race Theory
As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.
by
Jelani Cobb
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The New Yorker
on
September 10, 2021
On Our Knees
What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.
by
Farah Peterson
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The American Scholar
on
September 7, 2021
Slavery, Technology and the Social Origins of the US Agricultural State
Ariel Ron discusses the rise of the agricultural state in his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic.
by
Ariel Ron
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Broadstreet
on
September 3, 2021
‘Cuba: An American History’ Review: That Infernal Little Republic
Cuba has spent its entire existence as a state and much of its late colonial past in Uncle Sam’s purported backyard.
by
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The Wall Street Journal
on
September 3, 2021
partner
Black Swimmers Overcome Racism and Fear, Reclaiming a Tradition
Today, drowning rates are disproportionately high among Black children. What’s being done?
by
Brandon Alexander
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Retro Report
on
September 1, 2021
Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies
The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
by
Tiya Miles
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The Atlantic
on
August 30, 2021
partner
The Serpents of Liberty
From the colonial period to the end of the US Civil War, the rattlesnake sssssssymbolized everything from evil to unity and power.
by
Zachary Mcleod Hutchins
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Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
August 30, 2021
The Incoherence of American History
We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.
by
Osita Nwanevu
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The New Republic
on
August 11, 2021
Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?
The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.
by
Randall Kennedy
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The Nation
on
August 9, 2021
Ralph Waldo Emerson Would Really Hate Your Twitter Feed
For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.
by
Peter Wirzbicki
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Psyche
on
August 9, 2021
The Slippery Matter of ‘Truth’ in Patriotic Education
Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.
by
Timothy Messer-Kruse
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
August 5, 2021
Elkison v. Deliesseline: The South Carolina Negro Seaman Act of 1822 in Federal Court
Elkison v. Deliesseline presented a federal court with the question of whether a state could incarcerate and enslave a free subject of a foreign government.
by
Jake Kobrick
via
Federal Judicial Center
on
August 5, 2021
Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America
What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.
by
William A. Darity Jr.
,
Charles Ali Bey
via
Black Perspectives
on
August 4, 2021
Context and Consequences
On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us,” a new history of America’s constitutional conversation.
by
Joel Seligman
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 3, 2021
American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory
The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is a refusal to acknowledge that American schools have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.
by
Anthony Conwright
via
The New Republic
on
July 29, 2021
Thoreau In Good Faith
A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.
by
Caleb Smith
via
Public Books
on
July 19, 2021
Eating Dirt, Searching Archives
There are many black afterlives that are yet to be unearthed.
by
Endia Hayes
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Southern Cultures
on
July 16, 2021
Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today
There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
by
Karin Wulf
via
Aeon
on
July 15, 2021
The Silence of Slavery in Revolutionary War Art
Artists captured and honored the intensity of the American Revolution, but the bravery and role of Black men in the war was not portrayed.
by
Edna Gabler
via
Journal of the American Revolution
on
July 13, 2021
The Young America Movement and the Crisis of Household Politics
In the 19th century, freedom from government interference mapped onto opposition of women's rights.
by
Mark Power Smith
via
The Panorama
on
July 7, 2021
Looking for Nat Turner
A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.
by
Alberto Toscano
via
Boston Review
on
June 29, 2021
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