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The Origins of Birthright Citizenship
The Fourteenth Amendment captures the idea that no people born in the United States should be forced to live in the shadows.
by
Robert L. Tsai
via
Boston Review
on
November 9, 2018
The Constitution Is the Crisis
The system is rigged, and it’s the Constitution that’s doing the rigging.
by
Sanford Levinson
via
The Atlantic
on
October 1, 2019
'Home Builders': Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Civil War Commemorations
On the gendered dimensions of trans-Mississippi Civil War memory, the idea of the single-family household, and the politics of expansion and settlement.
by
Robert D. Bland
,
Lindsey R. Peterson
via
Muster
on
April 23, 2025
The Conservative Historian Every Socialist Should Read
A lifetime spent studying the disastrous lead-up to World War I gave Paul Schroeder reason to be horrified at the recklessness of US foreign policy.
by
Mathias Fuelling
via
Jacobin
on
April 22, 2025
Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University
C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in postwar America.
by
Sam Chian
via
Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
on
March 31, 2025
Ambition, Discipline, Nerve
The qualities that enabled Belle da Costa Greene to cross the color line also made her a formidable negotiator and collector for J.P. Morgan’s library.
by
Heather O’Donnell
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 24, 2025
Ronald Reagan’s Guiding Light
Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.
by
Richard D. Mahoney
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 30, 2025
How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America
On the early history of Black participation in America's pastime.
by
Gerald Early
via
Literary Hub
on
May 1, 2025
Why Beyoncé Is Carving a Route Along the ‘Chitlin' Circuit’
From Jim Crow-era performance to contemporary gospel musicals, entertainers have shaped the Black public sphere.
by
Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
May 5, 2025
The Prelude to the Civil War
“Only two states wanted a civil war—Massachusetts and South Carolina.”
by
Hunter DeRensis
via
The American Conservative
on
May 5, 2025
Almost Zion: Remembering a Short-lived Jewish State in New York
Ararat, a settlement dreamed up in the 1800s, was meant to offer a refuge to Jews. But after an ornate ceremony, plans never got off the ground.
by
Adam L. Rovner
via
The Conversation
on
April 29, 2025
Still Pursuing Happiness
The United States fares badly on the World Happiness Report. Who cares?
by
Reuven Brenner
via
Law & Liberty
on
April 22, 2025
The Decline of Outside Magazine Is Also the End of a Vision of the Mountain West
After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself.
by
Rachel Monroe
via
The New Yorker
on
April 18, 2025
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
"We should go back into history and ask: Why did we need the federal Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906?"
by
Deborah Blum
,
Talia Lavin
via
The Sword And The Sandwich
on
April 30, 2025
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
via
The New Yorker
on
April 28, 2025
At the National Public Housing Museum, an Embattled Idea Finds a Home
Chicago’s latest museum looks to change the narrative around the federally supported housing projects that US cities turned their backs on decades ago.
by
Zach Mortice
via
CityLab
on
April 25, 2025
The Storied History of HBCU Marching Bands
Marching bands at historically Black colleges and universities can be seen as both celebratory emblems and complicated arbiters of Black American culture.
by
Betsy Golden Kellem
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 24, 2025
partner
How Foreign Aid Can Benefit Both the U.S. and the World
Food for Peace exemplifies the value of internationalism and humanitarian endeavors in American foreign policy.
by
Thomas J. Knock
via
Made By History
on
April 23, 2025
partner
The 19th Century Thinker Who Touted Tariffs
Trump is not alone in his support for tariffs. Henry Carey also believed tariffs could help American workers.
by
Christopher W. Calvo
via
Made By History
on
April 28, 2025
partner
Solve for AI
What the history of the pocket calculator reveals about the future of AI in classrooms.
by
Bronwen Everill
via
HNN
on
April 30, 2025
The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s
On the constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.
by
Samantha Hancox-Li
via
Liberal Currents
on
April 24, 2025
If You’ve Watched Ken Burns’ Vietnam Documentary, Do You Need Netflix’s?
I, a historian of the Vietnam War, have watched the Turning Point treatment. I have some notes.
by
Scott Laderman
via
Slate
on
April 30, 2025
The Alien Enemies Act: Annotated
Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.
by
Liz Tracey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 25, 2025
On What Americans Know About Medieval History
A public opinion poll suggests that people really have strong opinions about a period that they don't really know anything about.
by
Eleanor Janega
via
Going Medieval
on
April 30, 2025
75 Years Ago, "The Martian Chronicles" Legitimized Science Fiction
On Ray Bradbury’s underappreciated classic.
by
Sam Weller
via
Literary Hub
on
April 28, 2025
A Chorus of Defiance
Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance.
by
David Cortright
via
Boston Review
on
April 24, 2025
Vance’s Junk History
When Donald Trump and his followers go in search of historical forerunners to justify their regime, they turn with striking regularity to the presidency.
by
Sean Wilentz
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 25, 2025
partner
How We Oversimplified the History of the Vietnam War
Popular memory of the war in both the U.S. and Vietnam tends to cast the fall of Saigon as inevitable.
by
Andrew Bellisari
via
Made By History
on
April 30, 2025
The Making of the American Culture of Work
Building the assumption of work’s meaningfulness happened across many different institutions and types of media.
by
Max L. Chapnick
via
Commonplace
on
April 22, 2025
Tariffs and the Shop Floor
A former garment worker reflects on rank-and-file agitation in the US garment industry just before the industry fled the country.
by
Ron Whitehorn
via
Jacobin
on
April 26, 2025
The Courts Won’t Save Us
Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.
by
Samuel Moyn
,
Daniel Bessner
via
Jacobin
on
April 30, 2025
From Chinese Exclusion to Pro-Palestinian Activism: The History of Politically Motivated Deportation
Removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their race, or what they say or believe.
by
Rick Baldoz
via
The Conversation
on
April 30, 2025
America’s Forgotten Capital City
At Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texans flex their go-it-alone style.
by
Bill Newcott
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
April 21, 2025
Revolution and Progress on Lexington Green
The American Revolution’s first battle is a reminder that liberty isn't the result of inevitable progress but a prize won by those willing to fight for it.
by
Richard Samuelson
via
Law & Liberty
on
April 25, 2025
Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History
The Founders had disagreements about the role of religion in America’s public schools, but there was always one line they would not cross.
by
Adam Laats
via
The Atlantic
on
April 25, 2025
US Defeat in Vietnam Was the Right Outcome for an Unjust War
The US invasion of Vietnam was catastrophic for the Vietnamese people, resulting in millions of deaths. Fifty years ago, the US-backed regime finally collapsed.
by
Michael G. Vann
via
Jacobin
on
April 30, 2025
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School
The classroom staple turns a hundred.
by
Alexander Manshel
via
The New Yorker
on
April 29, 2025
Milk Country
The making of Vermont's landscape.
by
Janice Kai Chen
via
janicekchen.com
on
May 9, 2020
partner
Lethal Injection Is Not Based on Science
The history of the three-drug combo used in death-penalty executions.
by
Corinna Barrett Lain
via
HNN
on
April 29, 2025
partner
The First and Last Queen of Haiti in Exile
Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.
by
Marlene L. Daut
via
HNN
on
January 7, 2025
When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas
While some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine, the Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston.
by
Kathryn Schulz
via
The New Yorker
on
April 28, 2025
The Dialectic Lurking Behind the Brutality
Greg Grandin’s new book tells the story of US expansionism and its complex relationship with the rest of the New World.
by
Ieva Jusionyte
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
April 23, 2025
How Mayor Fiorello La Guardia Transformed New York City
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is questioning what a socialist might accomplish as mayor of NYC. To answer it, it’s worth looking back on Fiorello La Guardia.
by
Joshua B. Freeman
via
Jacobin
on
April 23, 2025
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
In 1902, a woman named Mary MacLane from Butte, Montana, became an international sensation after publishing a scandalous journal at the age of 19.
by
Hunter Dukes
via
The Public Domain Review
on
April 23, 2025
Radical Tariffs Aren’t New, But They Have Been Disastrous
An American story.
by
Scott Reynolds Nelson
via
Perspectives on History
on
April 14, 2025
George W. Bush Lives on in Donald Trump’s Migrant Policies
The “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens.
by
Branko Marcetic
via
Jacobin
on
March 27, 2025
partner
Lacking a Demonstrable Source of Authority
On the case that provoked the courts to decide if the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands.
by
Keith Richotte Jr.
via
HNN
on
February 19, 2025
He’s a Key Thinker of the Radical Right, But Is He All That?
Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.
by
Joshua Tait
via
The Bulwark
on
April 11, 2025
partner
Creating the “Senior Citizen” Political Identity
On the movement that fought for old-age pensions during the Great Depression.
by
Linda Gordon
via
HNN
on
March 19, 2025
partner
Mutant Capitalism
How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.
by
Quinn Slobodian
via
HNN
on
April 15, 2025
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