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Massacre Under the Starry Flag
The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.
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Vicente L. Rafael
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 2, 2025
What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now
A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.
by
Lovia Gyarkye
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The New Republic
on
September 25, 2025
Anti-Americanism in Canada Is Nothing New — It’s a Tradition
Trump’s tariffs/threats have sparked boycotts and motivated voters north of the border, but Canadians’ desire to distance themselves from the US has deep roots
by
Jake Pitre
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New Lines
on
September 19, 2025
Mapping Deportations
Unmasking the history of racism in U.S. immigration enforcement.
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Kelly Lytle Hernández
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Ahilan Arulanantham
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Mariah Tso
via
Center For Immigration Law And Policy (UCLA)
on
September 17, 2025
Fifty Years After History’s Most Brutal Boxing Match
The Thrilla in Manila nearly killed Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
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Vann R. Newkirk II
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The Atlantic
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September 16, 2025
This Black Educator Looked to Conflicts Abroad for Lessons on Fighting Racism at Home
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price an opportunity to examine the links between racism and fascism.
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Keisha N. Blain
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Smithsonian Magazine
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September 15, 2025
Latin America, the United States, and the Creation of Social-Democratic Modernity
A Q&A with the author of "America, América: “A New History of the New World.”
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Greg Grandin
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Alexander Aviña
via
Public Books
on
September 9, 2025
How American Tech Made China an Economic Superpower
"Apple in China" tells the incredible story of China’s industrial development through the lens of America’s most iconic tech giant.
by
Daniel Cheng
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Damage
on
September 9, 2025
The Parallel Lives of Cold War Frenemies
On new biographies of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger.
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Hazem Kandil
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History Today
on
September 9, 2025
Green Gruel? Pea Soup? What Westerners Thought of Matcha When They Tried It for the First Time
‘Matcha mania’ shows no signs of slowing, pushing supply chains to the brink. It’s marked quite the rise for a drink long met with skepticism in the West.
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Rebecca Corbett
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The Conversation
on
September 3, 2025
The Long History of Life on Mars
A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Jon Allsop
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The New Yorker
on
August 29, 2025
After Hiroshima: The US Occupation of Japan
Following Japan’s unconditional surrender in September 1945, the US aimed to rebuild the nation in its own image – for better or worse.
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Christopher Harding
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History Today
on
August 28, 2025
How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People
Revisiting a turning point in the history of Israel’s occupation.
by
Adam Hanieh
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Robert Knox
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Rafeef Ziadah
via
Literary Hub
on
August 27, 2025
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
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Michael A. Reynolds
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Compact
on
August 15, 2025
The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba
The Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities, known for its blood-spattered record of torture and political killings, was backed by the CIA.
by
Ramona Wadi
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Jacobin
on
August 14, 2025
Pipe Hitters
American special operators brought their tactics in the global war on terror back home.
by
Grayson Scott
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The Baffler
on
August 14, 2025
Spooking the Censors
In the 1950s, the CIA funded efforts to smuggle great works of literature into the Eastern Bloc.
by
Michael O'Donnell
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 13, 2025
The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus
In the darkest days of the Iraq War, the highly secretive Joint Special Operations Command emerged as one of the most influential institutions in government.
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Seth Harp
via
Wired
on
August 12, 2025
The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field
On William W. Watt’s experience in the aftermath of nuclear devastation.
by
Greg Mitchell
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Literary Hub
on
August 8, 2025
Eight Decades On, Vanuatu Still Struggles With America’s World War II Legacy
Americans’ love affair with the South Pacific masks the US Navy’s devastating impact on the region’s people and environment.
by
Joanne Drayton
via
New Lines
on
August 8, 2025
The Islamic Republic Was Never Inevitable
With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.
by
Arash Azizi
via
The Atlantic
on
August 5, 2025
The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn’t Happen
From a dying adviser to a clumsy editorial, the Revolution was a cascade of accidents and oversights.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
The New Yorker
on
August 4, 2025
Performing the Exotic and Lakota Resistance
How Lakota performers challenged the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
by
Sabine Hanke
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History Workshop
on
July 29, 2025
The Way We Understand the Cold War Is Wrong
People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.
by
Anders Stephanson
via
Jacobin
on
July 27, 2025
The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror
A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."
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Jackson Lears
via
London Review of Books
on
July 24, 2025
Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing
On the preparation and aftershocks of the attack that marked the beginning of the Nuclear Age.
by
Iain MacGregor
via
Literary Hub
on
July 24, 2025
For Decades, a Treaty Contained the Threat of Nuclear Weapons. Now That’s All at Risk.
Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.
by
Fred Kaplan
via
Slate
on
July 17, 2025
The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants
Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.
by
David Scott FitzGerald
via
Foreign Affairs
on
July 10, 2025
Exceptional Policing: American perspectives on the Cypress Hills Massacre
Bringing historical perspective to the current moment of nationalism redux and US-Canada border complexity.
by
Max Hamon
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Borealia: Early Canadian History
on
July 9, 2025
Gimme Boer
The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner “refugees” points to a longer history of U.S. fascination with these Dutch-descended white South Africans.
by
Charlie Dulik
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The Baffler
on
July 3, 2025
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