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Photograph of Chief Iron Tail.

American Indians, Playing Themselves

As Buffalo Bill's performers, they were walking stereotypes. But a New York photographer showed the humans beneath the headdresses.
by Michelle Delaney via What It Means to Be American on January 27, 2015
Vintage advertisment for Indian Land on sale, by the U.S. Department of the Interior

Universalizing Settler Liberty

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.
by Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh via Jacobin on August 4, 2014
The modern and original logo of the Cleveland Indians, Chief Wahoo.

The Secret History of Chief Wahoo

Brad Ricca dives into the history of the Cleveland Indians' name and the creation of "Chief Wahoo."
by Brad Ricca via Belt Magazine on June 19, 2014

Painting the New World

Benjamin Breen examines the importance of John White's sketches of the Algonkin people and the art's relation to the Lost Colony.
by Benjamin Breen via The Public Domain Review on April 24, 2012
Exhibit

Native Pasts

This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.
Pilgrim Thanksgiving

Which Thanksgiving?

The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.
by Karl Jacoby via Los Angeles Times on November 26, 2008

Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever

Down and dirty in eighteenth-century London and Boston.
by Roger D. Abrahams via Commonplace on January 1, 2008
Sketch of tobacco cultivation at Jamestown.

The Other Founding

A review of two books exploring the importance and legacy of the founding of the English colony at Jamestown.
by Alan Taylor via The New Republic on September 24, 2007
Salmon fisheries at Celilo Falls.

Ken Kesey Meets Lewis and Clark

Celilo Falls was the economic and spiritual center of the Indian world in the Pacific Northwest.
by George Rohrbacher via Commonplace on January 16, 2006
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The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.
by Jeremy Bangs via HNN on September 1, 2005

1491

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.
by Charles C. Mann via The Atlantic on March 1, 2002
“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” an 1885 parody of an 1850 painting by Charles Lucy.

Thankstaking

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?
by Jane Kamensky via Commonplace on January 1, 2001
Spread from Vine Deloria, Jr.'s essay "The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper."

The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper

An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.
by Vine Deloria Jr. via Art In America on July 1, 1972
Alcatraz Island prison sign painted over to welcome Indians to Indian land.
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The Art of Stealing Human Rights

Native peoples face similar struggles with the federal governments in the U.S. and in Canada.
by Radio Free Alcatraz via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1970
Plastic car on the board game "Life," with two blue and two pink pins representing a family in the car.

The Myth of Pro-Family America

Trump's allies incite moral panic about shrinking white families, even as the state dismantles families of color— a paradox rooted in slavery and eugenics.
by Cynthia Godsoe, Anna Belle Newport via Inquest on January 27, 2026
A small, lit candle being cupped in a hand.

The Racist Roots of the Death Penalty

Racial injustice was central to the establishment of the U.S. death penalty. Ending racial injustice must be central to its abolition.
by Ngozi Ndulue via Inquest on January 13, 2026
British raid on the Chesapeake during the War of 1812.

Lies We Learned: America Won the War of 1812

How American history has valorized a draw.
by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on January 3, 2026
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The Historians Behind Ken Burns' "The American Revolution"

Three experts discuss their behind-the-scenes experience as historical advisers to the new series.
by Kathleen DuVal, Jane Kamensky, Christopher Brown via Made By History on December 10, 2025
David Rubenstein looks toward the Washington Monument.

When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.
by Michael Powell via The Atlantic on December 1, 2025
American colonists pulling down a statue of King George the Third.

The Incoherence of Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’

Ken Burns has set himself the impossible task of retelling a national origin story that all Americans will embrace as their own.
by Adam Rowe via Compact on December 1, 2025
"Join, or Die" political cartoon of the snake in pieces representing colonies.

Did the Iroquois Really Influence the Birth of the Union?

For a fight at Thanksgiving, bring that one up.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on November 22, 2025
Ely S. Parker

Ely Parker’s Ambivalent Legacy

On U.S.-American Indian treaty-making and Ely Parker's role in its abolition.
by Michael Leroy Oberg via Native America: A History on November 20, 2025
Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein

“A Story We Think We Know”: Ken Burns on The American Revolution

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on November 16.
by Ken Burns, Michael Tomasky, Sarah Botstein via The New Republic on November 11, 2025
Washington Crossing the Delaware

Why the American Revolution Was a World War in All But Name

The transnational nature of America's fight for independence.
by Richard Bell via Literary Hub on November 7, 2025
An illustration of two children watching English ships sail to the American colonies.

The Tuttle Twins Learn Incredibly Wrong History Lessons

The libertarian propaganda series is back and worse than ever.
by Rob Larson via Current Affairs on October 29, 2025
Coyote covering his eyes, as depicted on the cover of Julian Brave Noisecat's book "We Survived the Night."

Through the Eyes of Little Crow

Little Crow was one of the leaders of the Dakota Uprising of 1862, a conflict that began, as so many Indian wars did, because treaty rights were being ignored.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via Pittsburgh Review of Books on October 15, 2025
Woods along the path of the British retreat from Concord to Boston.

Why Concord?

The geological origins of the American Revolution.
by Robert A. Gross, Robert Thorson via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
Frank Matsura photograph: a staged scene of a Native American man using a rifle to hold up men playing cards.

How Photographer Frank S. Matsura Challenged White America’s Hegemonic View of the West

On the groundbreaking work of the Japanese photographer who made Washington state his home.
by Glen Mimura via Literary Hub on September 11, 2025
17th-century surgeon performing a c-section.
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Pelvic Obsessions

How the “obstetrical dilemma” and the dark history of pelvimetry met in the present.
by Lynne Feeley via HNN on July 29, 2025
Sarrasani Program 1931 with Lakota's on horses, elephants, (circus theme).

Performing the Exotic and Lakota Resistance

How Lakota performers challenged the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
by Sabine Hanke via History Workshop on July 29, 2025
Native Americans perform a burial ceremony under a rock overhang.

Religion in the Lands That Became America

Historian Thomas A. Tweed proposes an environmental approach to the study of American religion.
by Karis Ryu via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 22, 2025
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