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Donald Trump at a rally
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Trump’s Rhetoric About the Election Channels a Dark Episode From Our Past

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.
by David Gessner via Made By History on October 22, 2020
Public art featuring silhouettes of enslaved people.

What Do We Want History to Do to Us?

Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, blackness and public art.
by Zadie Smith via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2020

The Gender-Bending Style of Yankee Doodle's Macaroni

The outlandish "macaroni" style of 18th-century England blurred the boundaries of gender, as well as class and nationality.
by Matthew Wills, Amelia Rauser via JSTOR Daily on October 21, 2018

At Gilded Age “Poverty Parties,” the Rich Felt Free

This bad old tradition isn’t quite dead.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 20, 2018
Civil War era envelope with a political cartoon with Confederate leaders hung as traitors.

When the Government Refused to Use Slavery to Recruit Soldiers, the Media Had No Qualms

With questionable motives, America finally saw black Union soldiers living and dying alongside their white countrymen.
by Brendan Seibel via Timeline on April 17, 2018

Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

A look at the ornate float and costume designs from Carnival’s “Golden Age."
by Allison C. Meier via The Public Domain Review on February 7, 2018

The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

The remarkable collection of sketches, drawings and watercolors left to us by a Civil War veteran.
via The Public Domain Review on November 2, 2017

Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.
by Daegan Miller via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 16, 2017

How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope

Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.
by Bill Black via The Atlantic on December 8, 2014
The modern and original logo of the Cleveland Indians, Chief Wahoo.

The Secret History of Chief Wahoo

Brad Ricca dives into the history of the Cleveland Indians' name and the creation of "Chief Wahoo."
by Brad Ricca via Belt Magazine on June 19, 2014

Black Is Beautiful: Why Black Dolls Matter

"Why do you have black dolls?"
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on February 21, 2013

Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.
by Alison de Lima Greene via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2012

How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured Before the Civil War

Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.
by Jonathan Prude via Commonplace on April 12, 2010
The 1893 World's Fair.
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A Ghost from Kitchens Across the Nation

The 1893 World’s Fair and the origins of Aunt Jemima.
by Lindsey Stewart via HNN on July 29, 2025
Five men sharing a meal in Qing dynasty China.

Splitting Hairs

Chinese immigrants, the queue, and the boundaries of political citizenship.
by Sarah Gold McBride via The Public Domain Review on July 9, 2025
Collage of different Indigenous people from the present day.
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Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting

A selection of radio and television programs that reinforce or reject stereotypes, and Native-created media that responds to those depictions.
by Sally Smith via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 16, 2024
Paintings by John Singer Sargent: Asher Wertheimer, 1898 (left) and Hylda, Almina and Conway, Children of Asher Wertheimer, 1905 (center), London. Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer, 1898 (right).

A Sudden, Revealing Searchlight

On Jean Strouse and the art of biography.
by Ruth Franklin via Harper’s on October 23, 2024
The author’s mother, 1927.

Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life

In "Ordinary Notes," Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.”
by Omari Weekes via The Nation on December 13, 2023
Richard Nixon discusses Vietnam with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Deputy National Security Advisor Al Haig at Camp David, 1972.
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The "Madman Theory" Was Quintessential Nixon

The rash ruse was central to Nixon’s strategy to fight the Cold War, and can also tell us a good deal about the famously elusive ex-president himself.
by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson via HNN on March 26, 2023
Cartoon of Madame Restell and Mrs. Bird accompanied by a skeleton.

Female Physicians in Antebellum New York City

"Female physicians" did a lot more than provide abortions, but abortion soon encompassed how others perceived their work.
by Nicholas L. Syrett via The Panorama on November 11, 2022
Animals in pairs in the rain board a rocket ship, evoking Noah's ark. Fantastic October 1961, Mike Christie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What If… Historians Were Honest About Counterfactuals?

A single choice can branch out to infinite realities.
by Adam R. Shapiro via Contingent on May 5, 2022
Comedian Charlie Hill on stage with a microphone.

‘Part of Why We Survived’

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?
by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on December 23, 2021
The cover of the book "The Secret of Life"

Heels: A New Account of the Double Helix

How Rosalind Franklin, the crystallographer whose data were crucial to solving the structure of DNA, was written out of the story of scientific discovery.
by Nathaniel Comfort via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 26, 2021
A black and white photo of historian Mae Ngai.

“We’ve Always Had Activists in Our Communities”

May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.
by Mae Ngai, Jilene Chua via Public Books on October 13, 2021
Women holding protest signs, demonstrating against school materials, 1975

When a Battle to Ban Textbooks Became Violent

In 1974, the culture wars came to Kanawha County, West Virginia, inciting protests over school curriculum.
by Ashawnta Jackson, Carol Mason, Paul J. Kaufman via JSTOR Daily on September 27, 2021
Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation Spent the Last Decade of Her Life Violently Destroying Bars. She Had Her Reasons. 

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Slate on September 7, 2021

Decolonize Hipsters

The history of hipsters is a not-so-secret history of race in the Atlantic world.
by Grégory Pierrot via Guernica on April 20, 2021
Text that says "Can a font be racist?" in the font "Won Ton."

Karate, Wonton, Chow Fun: The End of 'Chop Suey' Fonts

For years, the West has relied on so-called 'chop suey' fonts to communicate "Asianness" in food packaging, posters and ad campaigns.
by Anne Quito via CNN on April 7, 2021
A print featuring fish that look like the American flag.

Propagating Propaganda

Toward the end of WWI, as the U.S. peddled Liberty Bonds, a goldfish dealer bred a stars-and-stripes-colored carp: a living, swimming embodiment of patriotism.
by Laurel Waycott via The Public Domain Review on March 17, 2021
Map of D.C showing where the murder took place

Where Is Dorsey Foultz?

When the D.C. Metropolitan Police failed to catch a murder suspect, white residents criticized and mocked. Black residents worried.
by Sarah A. Adler via Contingent on January 9, 2021
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