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How Davy Crockett Became an American Legend

Was Davy Crockett a sellout? And does it matter?
by Phil Edwards, Coleman Lowndes via Vox on August 7, 2019
Tintype photograph of Omar Ibn Said.

Educated and Enslaved

The journey of Omar Ibn Said.
by Benny Seda-Galarza via Library of Congress on July 22, 2019

The Hollywood Darling Who Tanked His Career to Combat Anti-Semitism

The life and political commitments of screenwriter Ben Hecht.
by Edward D. White via The Paris Review on November 3, 2017
Pauli Murray

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.
by Rosalind Rosenberg, Alyssa Collins via Black Perspectives on October 16, 2017

Pour One Out for Ulysses S. Grant

His presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on October 2, 2017
Blackfoot Chief, Mountain Chief making phonographic record at Smithsonian, February 9, 1916.

Eavesdropping on History

By all accounts, young Bill Owens was a natural song-catcher, trawling across Texas in the 1930s, the golden era of American field recording.
by Cynthia Shearer via Oxford American on April 5, 2016

Born a Slave, Emma Ray Was The Saint of Seattle’s Slums

Emma Ray was a leader in battles against poverty, and for temperance.
by Lorraine McConaghy via Crosscut on February 26, 2016
Portrait of William Apess.

The Greatest Native American Intellectual You’ve Never Heard Of

The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.
by Phillip F. Gura via What It Means to Be American on April 17, 2015

The Self-Made Man

The story of America’s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth.
by John Swansburg via Slate on September 29, 2014
Iron Eyes Cody meets Jimmy Carter, who is wearing a Native American headdress

Among the Tribe of the Wannabes

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.
by Russell Cobb via This Land Press on August 26, 2014

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