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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
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This Soldier’s Witness to the Iraq War Lie

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.
by Frederic Wehrey via New York Review of Books on September 15, 2020
Rutherford B. Hayes and Donald Trump.
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The Election From Our Past That Blares a Warning for 2020

A contested presidential election in 1876 produced a devastating compromise.
by Richard Kreitner via Made By History on September 11, 2020

The Revolutionary Thoreau

Generations of readers have chosen to emphasize Thoreau's spiritual communion with Nature, but Walden begins with trenchant critique of “progress.”
by R. H. Lossin via New York Review of Books on September 4, 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

The Double Standard of the American Riot

The nationwide protests against police killings have been called un-American by critics, but rebellion has always been used to defend liberty.
by Kellie Carter Jackson via The Atlantic on June 1, 2020
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Red Chicago

A visit with artists and public historians in Chicago who are working to keep the memory of the city's "Red Summer" alive.
via Future Of America's Past on March 12, 2020

6 Myths About the History of Black People in America

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.
by Jessica Machado, Karen Turner via Vox on February 18, 2020

Clipping the Devil's Rope

How barbed wire sparked a cowboy war and changed the American West.
by Andy Warner via The Nib on February 17, 2020

The Long-Forgotten Vigilante Murders of the San Luis Valley

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.
by Robert Sanchez via 5280 on December 2, 2019

An Early Case For Reparations

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on October 16, 2019

Elaine Race Massacre: Red Summer in Arkansas

An interactive exhibit that explores the events and consequences of the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history.
via Center For Arkansas History And Culture on July 29, 2019

When Kansas Was Bleeding

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.
by Tristan J. Tarwater, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on April 22, 2019

One of History's Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of Black History Month

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.
by Paul Ortiz via TIME on January 31, 2018
Members of ARDE Frente Sur in 1987.

The Psyops Manual the CIA Gave to Nicaragua's Contras Is Totally Bonkers

To defeat the leftist Sandinistas, Washington provided aid to the Contras along with a crazy psychological warfare anticommunist manual.
by Jared Keller via Task & Purpose on December 19, 2017
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White Supremacists and the Rhetoric of "Tyranny"

White supremacists have long used fear of losing essential rights in their arguments.
by Livia Gershon, Marek D. Steedman via JSTOR Daily on August 31, 2017

Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction

Black power, and the causes it supports, began long before the official Black Power movement.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on June 21, 2017

From Boston's Resistance to an American Revolution

How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.
by Mark Boonshoft via New York Public Library on February 28, 2017

John Brown: The First American to Hang for Treason

The militant abolitionist's execution set a precedent for armed resistance against the federal government with implications for those who had condemned him.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on December 2, 2014

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