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Who Is History For?
What happens when radical historians write for the public.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
July 25, 2023
The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book
The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
The Atlantic
on
February 22, 2023
The Long American Counter-Revolution
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
December 8, 2022
The Changing Same of U.S. History
Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
November 10, 2021
The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy
Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
January 24, 2020
The Fourth of July Has Always Been Political
The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
The Atlantic
on
July 4, 2019
The Revival of John Quincy Adams
The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
The Atlantic
on
July 11, 2017
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The Return of Staughton Lynd
A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
HNN
on
February 15, 2010
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
David Waldstreicher
2023
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The Great American Poet Who Was Named After a Slave Ship
A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.
by
Tiya Miles
via
The Atlantic
on
April 22, 2023
No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
by
Eran Zelnik
via
The Activist History Review
on
November 8, 2022
Did the Constitution Pave the Way to Emancipation?
In his new book, The Crooked Path to Abolition, James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.
by
Richard Kreitner
via
The Nation
on
October 6, 2021
Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By A President Who Loves Jon Meacham?
How a pop historian shaped the soul of Biden’s presidency.
by
Kara Voght
via
Mother Jones
on
April 2, 2021
How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism
The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.
by
John Clegg
via
Jacobin
on
August 28, 2019
How Proslavery Was the Constitution?
A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.
by
Nicholas Guyatt
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 2, 2019