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When New Yorkers Burned Down a Quarantine Hospital

On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.
by Matthew Wills, Kathryn Stephenson via JSTOR Daily on September 19, 2019
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Lines in the Sand

Ed Ayers visits with public historians in Texas and explores what's wrong with remembering the Alamo as the beginning of Texas history.
via Future Of America's Past on August 15, 2019
Japanese-Americans farming in Manzanar
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A Grave Injustice

Ed Ayers visits Manzanar, the largest of the WWII-era internment camps for Japanese Americans, and speaks to those keeping the memories of detainees alive.
via Future Of America's Past on August 15, 2019
Cover of "These Truths"

New Yorker Nation

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.
by Richard White via Reviews In American History on June 2, 2019

The Statue of Liberty Was Created to Celebrate Freed Slaves, Not Immigrants

Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on May 23, 2019
Interior of St Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia

Roman Catholic Dioceses in North America

How mapping Roman Catholic dioceses illustrates key concepts of religious ecologies at a continental scale.
by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media via American Religious Ecologies on May 20, 2019

‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than remembered.
by Kristin L. Hoganson, Bridey Heing via Longreads on April 23, 2019

The Border Patrol has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924

The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.
by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on January 12, 2019

The Populist Specter

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on January 10, 2019

How A Corporation Convinced American Jews To Reach For Crisco

A Proctor & Gamble ad-man on the Lower East Side recognized a big marketing opportunity when he saw one.
by Deena Prichep via NPR on December 2, 2018
Charles Lindbergh addresses the America First Committee in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1941.

Loaded Phrases

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on November 21, 2018

Capitol Hill Needs Thomas Paine Memorial

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?
by Jeff Biggers via The Hill on October 21, 2018
Chicago police in a carriage.
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A History of Police Violence in Chicago

At the turn of the century, Chicago police killed 307 people, one in eighteen homicides in the city—three times the body count of local gangsters.
by Jeffrey S. Adler, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on October 3, 2018

How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.
by Susan Schulten via Process: A Blog for American History on September 13, 2018

The City Born in a Day

The bizarre origin story of the surprisingly exceptional Oklahoma City, in a government-sanctioned raid called the Land Run.
by Sam Anderson via Intelligencer on August 17, 2018

Part of the Long History of Child Trafficking: 18th-Century French Louisiana

In the 1720s, French colonial authorities seized children off the streets of Paris and forced them to settle the New World.
by Julia M. Gossard via The Junto on June 27, 2018

In Search of Arborglyphs

A look into Basque tree carvings in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
by Tim Hauserman via The Tahoe Weekly on June 13, 2018

End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.
by Sarah Churchwell via The Guardian on April 21, 2018

Russians Were Once Banned From a Third of the U.S.

Soviet ban? What Soviet ban?
by Greg Miller via National Geographic on March 26, 2018

‘The Snake’: How Trump Appropriated a Radical Black Singer’s Lyrics

A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.
by Eli Rosenberg via Washington Post on February 24, 2018

The Dangerous Economics of Racial Resentment During World War II

White farmers, threatened by Japanese-Americans' success, played a critical role in the creation of internment camps.
by Gwynn Guilford via Quartz on February 13, 2018
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Trump’s View of America as a White Nation Is as American as Apple Pie

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.
by Benjamin E. Park via HNN on January 15, 2018

How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 7, 2018

Nikola Tesla: The Extraordinary Life of a Modern Prometheus

Tesla created inventions that continue to alter our daily lives, but he died nearly penniless.
by Richard Gunderman via The Conversation on January 3, 2018

Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.
by Heidi Zimmer, Dan Ward via Digital Public Library of America on January 1, 2018

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017

In America's Sandwiches, the Story of a Nation

What the origins of tuna salad, the club sandwich, PB & J, Chow Mein sandwich, and the Scotch Woodcock reveal about our shared history.
by Megan Elias, Paul Freedman, Andrew P. Haley, Imogene L. Lim, Ken Albala via The Conversation on November 2, 2017

The Right Type of Citizenship

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?
by Jefferson Cowie via Public Books on October 31, 2017
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A Refugee in Puerto Rico, 1942

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the burden of our personal archives.
by Benjamin Breen on October 6, 2017

Remembering Our KKK Past

A dark moment in American history offers lessons for the present.
by Jane Dailey via HuffPost on September 12, 2017
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