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"The Culture Wars— They’re Back!"

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.
by Laura Ansley via Perspectives on History on August 11, 2021
A cracked picture of Washington crossing the Delaware River.

The Incoherence of American History

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.
by Osita Nwanevu via The New Republic on August 11, 2021
Cover of TIME magazine featuring a redacted textbook and the title "The History Wars"

Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 16, 2021
Facade at the Alamo

'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?

What’s new about the controversy over the Alamo’s history, and how the way Texans tell its story relates to how Americans see each other.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 13, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession

Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.
by Daniel Engber via The Atlantic on June 11, 2021
A second grade teacher and her students pledge allegiance to the flag circa 1970.

Is There an Uncontroversial Way to Teach America’s Racist History?

A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.
by Jarvis R. Givens, Sean Illing via Vox on June 11, 2021
Antoni Jażwiński’s Tableau Muet, based on the original “Polish System” for charting historical information, later revised in France and the United States, 1834

Visualizing History: The Polish System

For the Polish educator Antoni Jażwiński, history was best represented by an abstract grid.
by Adam Green, Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on May 5, 2021
Bubbles with numbers of black Georgia school teachers, centered is 1896 when there were 3316.

American History XYZ

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.
by Sasha Frere-Jones via Bookforum on November 9, 2020
A man protesting for Mexican-American representation in history education.
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Ethnic Studies Can’t Make Up for Whitewashed History in Classrooms

More diverse regular history classes are the key to a historically literate population.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on October 11, 2020

Trump Calls for More Patriotic Education

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.
by Laura Meckler, Moriah Balingit via Retropolis on September 17, 2020

Women's Clubs and the "Lost Cause"

Women's clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.
by Matthew Wills, Joan Marie Johnson via JSTOR Daily on August 24, 2020

The Next Lost Cause?

The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.
by Caroline E. Janney via Washington Post on July 31, 2020

Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History

A series of graphs that help explain why at least 830 monuments were erected many decades after the end of the Civil War.
by Ryan Best via FiveThirtyEight on July 8, 2020

Teaching History Is Hard

Bunk Executive Director Ed Ayers on the importance of teaching students to think for themselves.
by Ed Ayers via Medium on April 28, 2020

How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom

The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on March 25, 2019

The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.
by Christine DeLucia via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 10, 2019

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?
by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018
Jill Lepore

'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018
Railway strike of 1886.

Why Strikes Matter

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.
by Erik Loomis via Literary Hub on October 3, 2018
Schoolchildren writing on a chalkboard.

Why Read "Why Learn History"

(When It’s Already Summarized in This Article?)
by Elizabeth Elliot via Perspectives on History on August 20, 2018

America’s First Female Mapmaker

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.
by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 18, 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
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The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."
by Benjamin Breen on April 12, 2018

I Grew Up as a Black Southerner Idolizing Robert E. Lee

I didn't know the Confederate general owned slaves. I didn't even know he was part of the Confederacy.
by Issac J. Bailey via Vice on November 2, 2017

Myth of Black Confederates Won't Go Away

Two South Carolina lawmakers dust off a familiar trope in an attempt to fight back against Confederate monument removals.
by Kevin M. Levin via Post and Courier on October 11, 2017
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
by Robert Sullivan via Harper's on October 1, 2016
Black-and-white illustration of conquistadores with a Native American kneeling before them.
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Making a Myth

A time before “everyone” knew the story of Christopher Columbus, and the role of Washington Irving’s massive biography in creating the heroic Columbus myth.
via BackStory on October 10, 2014

The True Story of Phineas Gage Is Much More Fascinating Than the Mythical Textbook Accounts

Each generation revises his myth. Here’s the true story.
by Sam Kean via Slate on May 7, 2014

Origins of Black History Month

Why did Carter G. Woodson choose February, and what was his vision for the annual commemoration?
by Daryl Michael Scott via Association for the Study of African American Life on February 1, 2011

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