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State troopers guarding a roadblock during an armed standoff at the “embassy” of the separatist group Republic of Texas, Fort Davis, Texas, May 1997

Why It’s Time to Take Secessionist Talk Seriously

Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return.
by Richard Kreitner via New York Review of Books on January 19, 2021
Raphael Warnock
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Warnock’s Win Was 150 Years In the Making — But History Tells Us It Is Fragile

The selection of African American Sen. Hiram Revels in 1870 offered great hope — but it was soon dashed.
by William Sturkey via Made By History on January 18, 2021
Picture of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

Although he did not openly endorse every one of the many precepts of the antislavery Constitution, Lincoln framed his positions entirely within its parameters.
by James Oakes via Literary Hub on January 13, 2021
A collage of Joe Biden photos.

5 Things You Didn’t Know about Joe Biden’s Roots

A genealogist takes a closer look at Joe Biden's family history.
by Megan Smolenyak via Medium on January 12, 2021
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Civil War Memory

Historical understandings and myths about the Civil War's causes, meanings, and legacies still shape American culture and national discourse about the country's future.
Members of the National Guard stand behind a fence outside of the U.S. Capitol building.

Impeachment May Not Work. Here’s the Next Best Way to Dump Trump

The 14th Amendment offers a remedy that is both simpler and likelier to work.
by Eric Foner via Washington Post on January 12, 2021
Portrait of Martin Delany in uniform

The Organizer’s Mind of Martin Delany

Why did the man known as the “father of Black nationalism” defect to the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?
by Andrew Donnelly via Insurrect! on January 4, 2021
Collage of maps representative of the project
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Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020

The maps embrace everyone —free and enslaved, from the first national census of the late 18th century to the sophisticated surveys of the early 21st century.
by Ed Ayers, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on January 1, 2021
Lithograph of William Costin.

The Mount Vernon Slave Who Made Good: The Mystery of William Costin

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.
by David O. Stewart via Journal of the American Revolution on December 22, 2020
Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation in White Chapel, Louisiana

Troubled Indemnity

A history of the United States shifting the financial burden of emancipation onto enslaved people.
by Nikki Shaner-Bradford via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 21, 2020
William Faulkner

‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on December 20, 2020

This Guilty Land: Every Possible Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on December 17, 2020
A social gathering in 1862

The 19th-Century Roots of Instagram

Social networks existed long before the invention of social media.
by Adrienne Lundgren via Library of Congress on December 14, 2020
Silhouette of a soldier sitting on aircraft

The Long Roots of Endless War

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on November 30, 2020
Statue of Kit Carson

The Removal of Monuments: What about Kit Carson?

The West and the nation need worthier, more honest memorials.
by Susan Lee Johnson via We're History on November 24, 2020
The Lincoln Memorial.
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Channeling Lincoln’s Ideological Balancing Act Will Lead Biden to Success

In his time, the 16th president drew comparisons to a famous tightrope walker.
by David S. Reynolds via Made By History on November 20, 2020
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Biden's 2020 Election Win Over Trump is Step One. But 'Lame Ducks' Can Do Damage.

Biden will take over a country facing myriad challenges. And Trump's lame-duck period could be one of the most treacherous in American history.
by William Adler via NBC News on November 8, 2020
Painting of the rocky mountains

How ‘America the Beautiful’ was Born

The United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country.
by Jill Lepore via National Geographic on November 3, 2020
A black and white picture of Clint Eastwood

Cowboy Confederates

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.
by Jefferson Cowie via Dissent on November 1, 2020
Calhoun Monument, Marion Square, Charleston.

A Crashing Monument and the Echoes of War

The collapse of John C. Calhoun's statue created a sound not unlike artillery in the war he influenced.
by Justin Bristol via Muster on October 20, 2020
An image of William Faulkner and author André Malroux.

Faulkner Couldn’t Overcome Racism, But He Never Ignored It

That’s why the privileged White novelist’s work is still worth reading, Michael Gorra argues.
by Chandra Manning via Washington Post on October 2, 2020
Graffiti on a wall spelling "vote"
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Refusing to Accept the Results of a Presidential Election Triggered the Civil War

The danger of President Trump's rhetoric.
by Aaron Sheehan-Dean via Made By History on October 2, 2020
Drawing of people picking cotton at a plantation

A Few Random Thoughts on Capitalism and Slavery

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.
by James Oakes via The Economic Historian on September 28, 2020

Re-watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests

The landmark Ken Burns documentary hasn’t aged well. But it continues to shape American perceptions about the Confederacy and slavery.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 26, 2020
Trump speaking in front of Mount Rushmore, stage lit, mountains in night's darkness
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Nostalgia and the Tragedy of Trump's Speech at Mount Rushmore

In a recent speech, Trump looks to America's past for answers. However, the history he recounts is glaringly limited.
by John Bodnar via HNN on September 20, 2020
Photograph of Robert E. Lee standing alone in front of a door.

The Mystery of Robert E. Lee

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on September 17, 2020
Donald Trump.
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Trump’s 2020 Playbook Is Coming Straight from Southern Enslavers

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on September 9, 2020
Drawing of headshots of Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson

"Where Two Waters Come Together"

The confluence of Black and Indigenous history at Bdote.
by Katrina Phillips via National Museum of American History on August 26, 2020
Fugitive slaves riding on horseback.

The Black Collectors Who Championed African-American Art during the U.S. Civil War

Dorsey and Thomas amassed important collections at a time when the future of chattel slavery and Black life hung in the balance of a national quarrel.
by Jordan McDonald via Artsy on August 11, 2020
William Faulkner writes at a typewriter in front of a messy bookshelf, not looking at the camera.

What to Do About William Faulkner

A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on August 8, 2020

Racist Litter

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.
by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on July 30, 2020
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