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Why Historical Analogy Matters
If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.
by
Peter E. Gordon
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 7, 2020
Nationalist Anthems
Remembering a time when composers mattered more.
by
Sudip Bose
via
The American Scholar
on
December 2, 2019
Whose Boots on the Ground
We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?
by
Kiley Bense
via
Longreads
on
November 7, 2019
The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset
More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.
by
Nikhil Pal Singh
via
Boston Review
on
November 26, 2019
Las Marthas
At a colonial debutante ball in Texas, girls wear 100 pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington. What does it mean to find yourself in the in-between?
by
Jordan Kisner
via
The Believer
on
October 1, 2019
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.
by
Donna Murch
via
Boston Review
on
August 27, 2019
From the Battlefield to 'Little Women'
How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.
by
Jennifer Wilson
via
New York Review of Books
on
August 28, 2019
Rambo Politics from Reagan to Trump
Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.
by
Bonnie Honig
via
Boston Review
on
January 6, 2020
Andrew Yang and the Failson Mystique
America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.
by
Amber A'Lee Frost
via
Jacobin
on
September 19, 2019
Walking with the Ghosts of Black Los Angeles
"You can't disentangle blackness and California."
by
Ismail Muhammad
via
Literary Hub
on
September 20, 2019
The Strange Career of ‘National Security’
When the phrase became a national obsession, it turned everything from trade rules to dating apps into a potential threat.
by
Dexter Fergie
via
The Atlantic
on
September 29, 2019
Reflections on Malcom X
What we can learn from him and his legacy.
by
Nathan J. Robinson
,
Oren Nimni
via
Current Affairs
on
August 28, 2019
A Parade of Imperial Presidencies
Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.
by
Ivan Eland
via
The American Conservative
on
May 24, 2019
Why Disco Made Pop Songs Longer
Disco, DJs, and the impact of the 12-inch single.
by
Estelle Caswell
via
Vox Earworm
on
April 25, 2019
When King was Dangerous
He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
by
Alex Gourevitch
via
Jacobin
on
January 21, 2019
Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to create the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery—until now.
by
Linda Kinstler
via
Wired
on
January 31, 2019
This, Too, Was History
The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
by
Peter C. Baker
via
The Point
on
January 14, 2019
partner
The Whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre
Three men who brought the terrors of My Lai to light.
by
Howard Jones
via
HNN
on
December 17, 2019
partner
How a 50-Year-Old Study Was Misconstrued to Create Destructive Broken-Windows Policing
The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.
by
Bench Ansfield
via
Made By History
on
December 27, 2019
A New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery
The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.
by
Amy Crawford
via
Smithsonian
on
January 1, 2020
The Asian-American Canon Breakers
Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.
by
Hua Hsu
via
The New Yorker
on
January 6, 2020
Land of the Free
The story of America is precisely the heroic story of pioneers who bring the American ideal again and again to the West.
by
Christopher Flannery
via
Claremont Review of Books
on
December 13, 2019
All Good Things Must Begin
On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.
by
Tarisai Ngangura
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 8, 2019
Tremendous in His Wrath
A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.
by
Eric Foner
via
London Review of Books
on
December 9, 2019
Before And After
The allegations against Michael Jackson make listening to his songs a struggle, one that resists the comfort those songs once provided.
by
Ann Powers
via
NPR
on
December 11, 2019
What Should a Slavery Epic Do?
If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
via
Vulture
on
December 26, 2019
America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared
John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”
by
Lee Drutman
via
The Atlantic
on
January 2, 2020
It's 2020 and You're in the Future
Some people are young, just not you.
by
Tim Urban
via
Wait But Why
on
January 2, 2020
40 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1977
A visual trip back in time to 1977.
by
Alan Taylor
via
The Atlantic
on
October 16, 2017
The Empire’s Amnesia
When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
by
Greg Grandin
,
Jacobin
via
Jacobin
on
May 19, 2017
The Infinity War
We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?
by
Samuel Moyn
,
Stephen Wertheim
via
Washington Post
on
December 13, 2019
Jimmy Carter Toasts the Shah
The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.
via
Voices & Visions
on
December 31, 1977
Iran and America: A Forgotten Friendship
As President Trump’s rhetoric against Iran heats up, it's worth recalling a time when the two countries had a different relationship.
by
Daniel Thomas Potts
via
The Conversation
on
July 31, 2018
The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader
Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.
by
Roham Alvandi
via
Foreign Policy
on
October 30, 2019
A Personal Act of Reparation
The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
by
Kirk Savage
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 15, 2019
Madison’s Notes Don’t Mean What Everyone Says They Mean
The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.
by
Mary Sarah Bilder
via
The Atlantic
on
December 22, 2019
The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?
by
Katie Notopoulos
via
BuzzFeed News
on
December 28, 2019
The Decade America Terrorized Itself
The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…
by
Patrick Blanchfield
via
Gen
on
December 10, 2019
How Should We Remember the Puritans?
In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.
by
Andrew Delbanco
via
The Nation
on
November 18, 2019
The Rightness of the Singular ‘They’
This year, Merriam-Webster added a new definition to the word “they”: “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”
by
Jen Manion
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
December 15, 2019
Disinfo Redux
Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.
by
Laura Thorne
via
Columbia Journalism Review
on
November 1, 2019
DNA Analysis From Colonial Delaware Skeletons Reveals Beginning Of American Slave Trade
A new DNA study of skeletons from a farmstead on the Delaware frontier has revealed key information about the early transatlantic slave trade.
by
Kristina Killgrove
via
Forbes
on
December 19, 2019
The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
by
Adam Serwer
via
The Atlantic
on
December 23, 2019
Forget What You Know About 1619, Historians Say. Slavery Began a Half Century Before Jamestown
African slaves had been in Florida 54 years before they arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. One historian says the 1619 narrative 'robs black history.'
by
Nicquel Terry Ellis
via
USA Today
on
December 17, 2019
Historians' Statement on the Impeachment of President Trump
Over 1000 historians have signed this statement condemning President Trump's actions.
via
Medium
on
December 18, 2019
Losing Ourselves in Holiday Windows
Nostalgia has always been harnessed or packaged to sell things.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
via
Collectors Weekly
on
December 20, 2013
Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners
How Charles Dickens' unpleasant trip to Boston led to "A Christmas Carol."
by
Samantha Silva
via
Literary Hub
on
December 21, 2017
When Santa Claus Was Deplored in Wartime
The modern image of Santa Claus first appeared in a Civil War illustration, and it wasn’t the last time St. Nick was deployed in wartime.
by
Christopher Klein
via
HISTORY
on
December 4, 2019
Fandom: A Star Wars Story
This is about much more than Star Wars—it is about media bias and "information disorder" in the twenty-first century.
by
William Proctor
via
Contingent
on
December 4, 2019
To Be Mary MacLane
In the early twentieth century, Mary MacLane’s genre-defying books earned the scorn of critics and the adoration of readers across the nation.
by
Penelope Rosemont
via
The Paris Review
on
December 5, 2019
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