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Picture of soldiers from WWI.

There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.
by William I. Hitchcock, Meghan Herwig via War on the Rocks on September 7, 2021
Person getting vaccinated

Vaccine Mandates Are as American as Apple Pie

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.
by Matt Ford via The New Republic on July 30, 2021
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Sunrise at Monticello

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on July 19, 2021

Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
by Karin Wulf via Aeon on July 15, 2021
Lithograph of Monongahela River bridge
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The Girders of Steel City's History

Pittsburgh as a symbol of America itself.
by Ed Simon via HNN on July 11, 2021
Abstract painting titled 'Constellation' by Helen Gerardia

A New Planet in the System

Early Americans conscripted the universe into their nation-building project.
by Gordon Fraser via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 8, 2021
George Washington Carver painted in the role of George Washington crossing the Delaware, surrounded by racist caricaturess of African Americans

Robert Colescott Asks Us to Reimagine Icons of American History

Colescott satirizes an iconic painting of George Washington, and in doing so, challenges the viewer to reconsider their beliefs about American history.
by Sotheby's via YouTube on May 11, 2021
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Rick Santorum and His Critics are Both Wrong About Native American History

The Founders terrorized and exterminated Native Americans instead of learning from them.
by Michael Leroy Oberg via Made By History on April 29, 2021
Le Marron Incconu, a statue of an enslaved man with a conch shell, dedicated to the abolishment of slavery.

Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.
by Steven Hahn via Boston Review on April 22, 2021
Patchwork collage of Joe Biden

All the President’s Historians

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?
by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on April 20, 2021
Historian and scholar Robert Bellinger outside the Buckman Tavern in Lexington. The town’s Historical Society has launched a study of the presence of enslaved people during the Revolutionary War in Lexington. JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF

Lexington Confronts History of Slavery in Liberty’s Birthplace

Some of the same Lexington townspeople who took up arms to fight for freedom on April 19, 1775, were slave owners. And one of them was enslaved.
by Nancy Shohet West via Boston Globe on April 16, 2021
engraving of a slave ship

Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long?

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for slaves increased.
by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on March 25, 2021
Painting of the Ohio River, ca. 1840.

A Confusion of Language

On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.
by Kate Masur via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 24, 2021
A cartoon of Boston colonists in a cage.

How Did the Colonies Unite?

The drive for American independence coalesced in only a few years of rapidly accelerating political change.
by T. H. Breen via New York Review of Books on March 1, 2021
Drawing ofGeorge Washington addressing the Continental Congress.

‘George Washington’ Review: Our Founding Politician

Washington was a savvy packager of his own personal virtues. He knew that if you don’t engage in a bit of self-aggrandizement, you lose.
by Barton Swaim via The Wall Street Journal on February 15, 2021
Prince Hall portrait

A Forgotten Black Founding Father

Why I’ve made it my mission to teach others about Prince Hall.
by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on February 10, 2021
Photograph of a former slave interviewed by the Federal Writers' Projects

Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on February 9, 2021
John C. Calhoun

American Heretic, American Burke

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.
by Allen C. Guelzo via The New Criterion on February 4, 2021
A drawing of the Boston Massacre.

Early American Urban Protests

Eric Hinderaker offers a masterclass in how to peel back the layers of data, scholarship, and propaganda to understand what we call the Boston Massacre.
by Bob Carey via The Metropole on January 19, 2021
Simon Bolívar Crossing the Andes, after a painting by Arayo Gómez, 1857; it is based on Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Democracy’s Demagogues

A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.
by Ferdinand Mount via New York Review of Books on January 14, 2021
A crowd of people with one person waving the Confederate flag

Learning from the Failure of Reconstruction

The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.
by Eric Foner, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on January 13, 2021
Alexander Hamilton on the ten dollar bill

What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
by Michael Busch, Christian Parenti via Boston Review on December 14, 2020
A painting of George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion.

The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.
by Kyler Burd via Journal of the American Revolution on December 10, 2020
flag of the Cherokee Nation

The 17-Year-Old Girl Who Was Once a Leader of The Cherokee Nation

Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward tried to broker peace with white settlers.
by Caroline Klibanoff, Allyson Schettino via Teen Vogue on November 30, 2020
Pilgrims

Thank the Pilgrims for America's Tradition of Separatism, Division, and Infighting

They were not the nation's first settlers, but they were the most fractious.
by Richard Kreitner via Zócalo Public Square on November 25, 2020

Our Chief Danger

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.
by William Hogeland via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 1, 2020

‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives

How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.
by Annelien de Dijn via TIME on August 25, 2020
William Lloyd Garrison

The Country That Was Built to Fall Apart

Why secession, separatism, and disunion are the most American of values.
by Richard Kreitner, Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 15, 2020

America's Black Soldiers

The long history behind the Army's Jim Crow forts.
by Elizabeth D. Samet via The American Scholar on July 11, 2020

Will We Still Be American After Democracy Dies?

Is being "political" the central force in our identities?
by Johann N. Neem via Public Seminar on July 7, 2020
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