News
What’s Actually Being Taught in History Class
Conversations with seven social studies teachers about how they run their classrooms, what they teach and why.
New York Times
Q&A
Liberating the Archives: Hugh Ryan’s “Women’s House of Detention”
An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Origin Story
Who Invented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?
The story behind America's iconic childhood meal.
National Peanut Board
Drawing
This Land is Our Land: The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz
From November 1969 to June 1971, 89 Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and their own destinies.
The Nib
First Person
Eugene Debs’s Stirring, Never-Before-Published Eulogy to John Brown at Harpers Ferry
In 1908, Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown as America's "greatest liberator," vowing the Socialist Party would continue Brown's work. We publish it here in full.
Jacobin
Retrieval
To Remember or to Forget
The story of philanthropists Catherine Williams Ferguson and Isabella Marshall Graham’s unlikely interracial collaboration.
Common-Place
Partner
Antecedent
The Disturbing Precedent for Busing Migrants to Other States
In the 19th century, Americans dumped poor migrants overseas. Now some governors are shipping them off to other states.
Made by History