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"What is Sport to You is Death to Us."

In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.
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America @ Worship

How social media is – and isn't – changing American religion.
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?
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When Science Was Big

This year's Nobel Prize in physics is a blast from the past of Cold War-era research investment. Is that era gone for good?
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A Refugee in Puerto Rico, 1942

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the burden of our personal archives.
John Lewis speaking in front of the Supreme Court.
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Litigating the Line Between Past and Present

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.
Sketch of a horse and a bird.
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Excremental Empire

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.
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Trump and the Historians

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.
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(Still) Worrying About the Civil War

Why I decided to devote my professional life to something I wasn't very interested in.
Baltimore Confederate monument.
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History vs. Memory

What professional historians do – and don't – have to offer communities struggling with the Confederate monuments in their midst.