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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
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Native Pasts

This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.
“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
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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
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
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
A group of men in 19th-century clothing groom their beards.

The First Time America Went Beard Crazy

A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion.
by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 21, 2025
Frederic Remington painting of cowboys galloping through the desert, firing guns over their shoulders at their pursuers.

“Lord, Teach My Hands To War, My Fingers To Fight”

The cowboy apocalypse and American gun fandom.
by Rachel Wagner via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 15, 2025
Mount Rushmore

On Myths and Monuments

Mount Rushmore and storytelling at America’s national parks.
by Stephen R. Hausmann via Perspectives on History on July 9, 2025
Scaffolding behind the statue of the rule of law outside the Supreme Court building.

Trump Is Wrong About Birthright Citizenship. History Proves It.

Lawmakers knew the Fourteenth Amendment would apply to the children of immigrants.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 29, 2025
Lithograph depicting General Washington leading his troops in battle against British troops.

Why George Washington Integrated the Army

The commander-in-chief initially barred black soldiers from joining the ranks, but he came to understand the value—both moral and strategic—of a diverse force.
by Andrew Lawler via The Bulwark on June 16, 2025
Book cover for The Invention of Design by Maggie Gram features a phone cord snaking around text.
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Irrelevant at Best, or Else Complicit

The state of design in 1970.
by Maggie Gram via HNN on June 3, 2025
F. D. R. looks intently across a table at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas during a meal.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Christy Thornton and Greg Grandin discuss his new book, “America, América,” and the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America.
by Greg Grandin, Christy Thornton via The Baffler on May 30, 2025
A Freedmen’s Bureau office, Richmond, Virginia, 1866.

One Brief Shining Moment

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on May 11, 2025
Two bridges in Grand Island, New York.

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
A photograph of Frederick Douglass imposed on the cover of The Columbian Orator by Caleb Bingham.

The Columbian Orator Taught Nineteenth-Century Americans How to Speak

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.
by Danny Heitman via Humanities on April 2, 2025
Map of Boston in 1776.

Terrains of Independence

Why was Boston and Massachusetts the site of so much early Revolutionary activity?
by Garrett Dash Nelson, Katy Lasdow via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on April 2, 2025
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