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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

A sign being held at the January 6 Trump rally that depicts Donald Trump holding the head of Karl Marx.

Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates

Misunderstood historical imagery at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

by Matthew Gabriele via Perspectives on History on January 12, 2021

Political cartoon depicting the menace of monopolies and trusts (1899)

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020

Person holding suitcase at gas station with other person in background

Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.

by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020

Chinese immigrants arrested in New Jersey in November 1934. One is smiling, all look disheveled.

An Explosive Government Report Exposed Family Separations and Other Immigration Horrors—in 1931

Lessons about “dark age cruelty” and the limits of reformism from 90 years ago.

by Noah Lanard via Mother Jones on October 27, 2020

The World Henry Ford Made

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

by Justin H. Vassallo via Boston Review on October 9, 2020

A boat landing in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Where the Waters Meet the People: A Bibliography of the Twin Cities

St. Paul and Minneapolis have a history as long, deep, and twisted as the Mississippi River.

by Avigail Oren via The Metropole on October 7, 2020

Artistic photo with american flags

Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on October 6, 2020

Joseph McCarthy presenting a map.

The Real Legacy of a Demagogue

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

by Dan Kaufman via The New Republic on October 2, 2020

A nose smelling.

What Smells Can Teach Us About History

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted.

by Shayla Love via Vice on September 16, 2020

QAnon Didn't Just Spring Forth From the Void

Calling QAnon a "cult" or "religion" hides how its practices are born of deeply American social and political traditions.

by Adam Willems, Megan Goodwin via Religion Dispatches on September 10, 2020

Police and Racist Vigilantes: Even Worse Than You Think

Is Trump a fascist? You should ask the same question of your local police.

by John Knefel via The American Prospect on September 10, 2020

The Evolution of 'Racism'

A look at how the word, a surprisingly recent addition to the English lexicon, made its way into the dictionary.

by Ben Zimmer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2020

The Return of American Fascism

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

by Sarah Churchwell via New Statesman on September 2, 2020

When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute?

Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?

by Matt Seaton via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2020

Photograph of Mike Mahoney on the White House grounds.

Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.

by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020

Formal photograph of Ulysses S. Grant.

Public Monuments and Ulysses S. Grant’s Contested Legacy

It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.

by Nick Sacco via Muster on July 7, 2020

Rumor Mill

Watching fake news spread in 1942.

by Tracy Campbell via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 20, 2020

Ye Olde Morality-Enforcement Brigades

The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.

by Matthew Wills, Bryan D. Palmer via JSTOR Daily on May 20, 2020

The Defender of Differences

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on May 14, 2020

The Yiddishist Neocon

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.

by Nancy Sinkoff, Hadas Binyamini via Jewish Currents on April 23, 2020

Another Time a President Used the “Emergency” Excuse to Restrict Immigration

It was 1921, and it changed the character of the United States for decades.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on April 22, 2020

The Other Pandemic

In addition to COVID-19, another pandemic is preying upon the human spirit, nourished by a vulgar bigotry that has gone viral.

by Alan M. Kraut via HNN on April 12, 2020

Graffito picture of Richard Nixon superimposed on lines an German text.

Richard Nixon, Modular Man

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.

by Phil Christman via The Hedgehog Review on April 6, 2020

The First Lady of American Journalism

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

by Nancy F. Cott via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 17, 2020

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

by Adam Hochschild via The New Yorker on November 4, 2019

Religion and the U.S. Census

Did the Census Bureau's practice of collecting data on religious bodies violate the separation of church and state?

by John G. Turner via American Religious Ecologies on October 7, 2019

Protester at an "America First" rally.

The Great-Granddaddy of White Nationalism

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.

by Diane Roberts via Southern Cultures on September 18, 2019

The End of the Golden Era of Chess

The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.

by Peter Nicholas via The Atlantic on September 5, 2019

Why Did Christianity Thrive in the U.S.?

Between 1870 and 1960, Christianity declined dramatically across much of Europe. Not in America. One historian explains why.

by Jon Butler, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on August 22, 2019

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