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Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

Martin Luther King and the 'Polite’ Racism of White Liberals

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

by Jeanne Theoharis via Washington Post on January 17, 2020

Edmund G. Ross.

Mike Pence’s Impeachment Hero Is a Corrupt 19th Century Politician

An historian debunks the vice president’s op-ed.

by Brenda Wineapple, Mark Joseph Stern via Slate on January 17, 2020

Memo From a Historian: White Ladies Cooking in Plantation Museums are a Denial of History

At museums across the South, you'll often find a white woman cooking in a big house kitchen. That's a role that was usually done by enslaved Africans.

by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 13, 2019

Bill Barr.

What Attorney General Barr Gets Wrong About the American Revolution

The revolutionaries were fighting against arbitrary power and for checks and balances.

by Michael D. Hattem via Made By History on November 22, 2019

The Legend of Big Ole

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.

by Rachel Boyle via Belt Magazine on November 14, 2019

Managing Our Darkest Hatreds And Fears: Witchcraft From The Middle Ages To Brett Kavanaugh

America has a history of dealing with witches - and it has culminated in a modern movement of politically active ones.

by Diane Purkiss via Athenaeum Review on October 14, 2019

How We Think About the Term 'Enslaved' Matters

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

by Nell Irvin Painter via The Guardian on August 14, 2019

Painting of Santa Claus giving a sword to a Confederate cavalryman next to a dinosaur.

What Is Revisionist History?

What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?

by Erin Bartram via Contingent on August 8, 2019

Donald Trump.

How Trump’s Airport Gaffe Masked A Dangerous Misunderstanding of the Revolutionary War

America won its freedom thanks to strong alliances.

by Lawrence B. A. Hatter via Made By History on July 12, 2019

Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

The Allied invasion of France was an important step in the war against the Nazis. But it was by no means a turning point.

by Kevin Kennedy via HNN on June 6, 2019

Bernie, the Sandinistas, and America's Long Crisis of Impunity

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Mother Jones on May 30, 2019

Clarence Thomas Used My Book to Argue Against Abortion

The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

by Adam S. Cohen via The Atlantic on May 29, 2019

AOC and the American Founding

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on January 30, 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

Lithograph of John Winthrop.

What We Get Wrong About ‘A City on Hill’

And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.

by Daniel T. Rodgers via Made By History on November 13, 2018

Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on November 4, 2018

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.

by Nitasha Tiku via Wired on October 22, 2018

Mountains on fire above a town.

Defensible Space

“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.

by Jessie Kindig via Boston Review on October 22, 2018

Revisiting the Prayer at Valley Forge

The fable of George Washington's prayer was meant to foster religious tolerance, not paint him as a pious leader.

by Blake McGready via Journal of the American Revolution on October 15, 2018

The Alamo.

Once Again, Texas’s Board of Education Exposed How Poorly We Teach History

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.

by Jonna Perrillo via Made By History on September 21, 2018

Trump speaks to auto workers.

Forget Trump – Populism is the Cure, Not the Disease

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

by Thomas Frank via The Guardian on May 23, 2018

Demonstrators hold a painting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump outside a Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona, August 22, 2017.

American Democracy Has Faced Worse Threats Than Donald Trump

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.

by Ezra Klein via Vox on May 10, 2018

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

by Sophie Pinkham via The Nation on May 3, 2018

How the Log Cabin Became an American Symbol

We have the Swedes and William Henry Harrison to thank for the popularization of the log cabin.

by Andrew Belonsky via Mental Floss on April 19, 2018

Line graph of history BAs granted, peaking in the 1960s and declining in the 2010s.

Do We Know What History Students Learn?

It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills. It's time to offer evidence.

by Mark M. Smith, Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone via Inside Higher Ed on April 3, 2018

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

The bestselling guru's ancient wisdom is unmistakably modern – a disturbing symptom of the social malaise he sets out to cure.

by Pankaj Mishra via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Statue memorializing Irish immigrants.

No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.

by Liam Hogan, David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on March 15, 2018

Illustration of enslaved persons singing and dancing

Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.

by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 2018

What America Gets Wrong About Three Important Words in the Second Amendment

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."

by Robyn Pennacchia via Quartz on February 24, 2018

This, Our Second Nadir

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.

by N. D. B. Connolly via Boston Review on February 21, 2018

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