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Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History

Two historians shed light on the atrocities of Native American enslavement and genocide.
by Peter Nabokov via New York Review of Books on November 24, 2016
Engraving by Samuel de Champlain of himself and his Algonquin allies attacking the Iroquois.

An Expanding Vision of America

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.
by Nicole Eustace via New York Review of Books on March 6, 2025
A man in uniform holding an honorable discharge certificate from the U.S. Air Force.

How The U.S. Military Built San Francisco's LBGTQ+ Legacy

Many LGBTQ+ veterans settled in the city as it was a common point of disembarkation and a place of gender nonconformity.
by Solcyré Burga via TIME on June 21, 2024
John Muir.

What a Young John Muir Learned In the Wisconsin Wilderness

The Scottish-born naturalist’s early years in the United States.
by Amanda Bellows via Literary Hub on June 14, 2024
The subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in California and New York.

A Brief History of the United States' Accents and Dialects

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns.
by Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton via Smithsonian on January 17, 2024
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The Richest Square Mile on Earth

Almost by accident, we find ourselves at the epicenter of the Colorado Gold Rush, which attracted prospectors to the Rockies a decade after the famous bonanza of ‘49.
by Ed Ayers on October 31, 2023
Map showing density of Southern-born whites living outside the south in 1900.

The Confederate Diaspora

A summary of how white migration out of the postbellum South entrenched Confederate culture across the U.S. during postwar reconciliation.
by Samuel Bazzi, Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, Patrick A. Testa via National Bureau Of Economic Research on June 21, 2023
Portrait of Jane Stanford, circa 1855.

A Poisonous Legacy

Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.
by Jessica Riskin via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023
Picture of the many different people that make up the US.

The Right to Leave

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?
by Stephanie Degooyer via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 29, 2022
Photograph of Chinese man in Sierra County with his name and description next to him.

The Dark Purpose Behind a Town Constable’s Journal

Why did a local official, at the turn of the twentieth century, maintain a ledger tracking Chinese residents?
by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on January 28, 2022
Aged photograph of Chinese laborers working on the railroad.

Artifacts Used by Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers Found in Utah

Researchers discovered the remains of a mid-19th century house, a centuries-old Chinese coin and other traces of the short-lived town of Terrace.
by Livia Gershon via Smithsonian on October 26, 2021
The front cover of Kevin Waite's, "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire."

Desert Plantations

A review of “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire."
by Tom Prezelski via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 29, 2021
Chinese miners in California

The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s Anti-Immigrant Politics

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
by Mari Uyehara via The Nation on August 9, 2021
Document from the first session of Congress

California’s Vigilante Tradition

The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem.
by Kevin Waite via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 23, 2021
Drawing of the oil industry within a crystal ball.

The Mediums Who Helped Kick-Start the Oil Industry

Apparently some people communed with spirits to locate the first underground oil reserves.
by Paul H. Giddens, Jess Romeo, Rochelle Ranieri Zuck via JSTOR Daily on June 18, 2021
John Marshall Harlan and Robert James Harlan

The Black Hero Behind One of the Greatest Supreme Court Justices

John Marshall Harlan's relationship with an enslaved man who grew up in his home showed how respect could transcend barriers and point a path to freedom.
by Peter S. Canellos via Politico Magazine on June 6, 2021
Gold-spangled Polish chickens.

Fancy Fowl

How an evil sea captain and a beloved queen made the world crave KFC.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on June 3, 2021

The Bloody History of Anti-Asian Violence in the West

One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.
by Kevin Waite via National Geographic on May 10, 2021
Headshot of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and the American Project

It would be hard to blame him if he had lost faith in the republic.
by Richard Hughes Gibson via The Hedgehog Review on February 22, 2021
Roosevelt Middle School sign with a red X on it.

The Holier-Than-Thou Crusade in San Francisco

The city’s move to rename schools will provide invaluable ammunition to Fox News.
by Gary Kamiya via The Atlantic on February 2, 2021
A covered wagon in the grass.

The Deadly Temptation of the Oregon Trail Shortcut

Dying of dysentery was just the beginning.
by Laura Kiniry via Atlas Obscura on December 2, 2020

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
Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

Remapping LA

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.
by Carolina A. Miranda via Guernica on February 19, 2019
Landscape shot of Los Angeles, with Hollywoodland sign in the background.

True West: Searching for the Familiar in Early Photos of L.A. and San Francisco

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on February 13, 2019
853 map of San Francisco by the U. S. Coast Survey

Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on September 21, 2018

Donald Trump's Grandfather Came to the U.S. as an Unaccompanied Minor

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.
by Kristine Phillips via Retropolis on June 27, 2018
Alice Lee Hum with her mother Jean, at a laundry on 21st Ave in Astoria, Queens, c. 1951.

How Childhoods Spent in Chinese Laundries Tell the Story of America

The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.
by Eveline Chao via Atlas Obscura on January 3, 2018

How Chop Suey Saved San Francisco's Chinatown

For Chinese immigrants, surviving in America has always required intense strategy.
by Sarah Nasr via AJ+ on August 15, 2017
Street map of San Francisco marking the old shoreline and the locations of dozens of buried ships.

New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco

Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets.
by Greg Miller via National Geographic on June 2, 2017

How Advertisers Have Used Maps to Try to Sell You Stuff

A huge collection of “persuasive maps” — newly available online — reveals how our trust in cartography can be used to sway us.
by Betsy Mason via National Geographic on May 5, 2017
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