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Cover of "A Great Disorder" by Richard Slotkin, depicting the outline of the United States made out of cracked stone, overlaid with the American flag.

American Mythology

Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?

by Tom Zoellner via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 4, 2024

State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill Administration Building, with a restricted entrance sign in front of its doors.

The Porous Prison

How incarcerated people have become separated from American society.

by Charlotte Rosen, Reiko Hillyer via Public Books on October 3, 2024

Empty speech bubbles emanating from people in an old house.

Popular History

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

by Scott Spillman via The Point on September 29, 2024

Cover of "Write Like a Man," featuring a cartoon of Jewish New Yorkers around a table of Manhattan locations.

A Case of Unrequited Love

On Irving Howe and the New Left.

by Ronnie Grinberg via HNN on September 24, 2024

Remains of an elephant preserved at the US National Museum.

How Moderate Republicans Went Extinct

On Nelson Rockefeller and the disappearance of moderate Republicans from American politics.

by Henry M. J. Tonks via Public Seminar on September 18, 2024

Black American soldiers pose with German women and mixed race children.

A Black Woman’s Activism in Postwar (West) Germany

Why one journalist worked with Black American families to adopt mixed-race German children after World War II.

by Silke Hackenesch via Black Perspectives on September 18, 2024

Emmett Till's photo is seen on his grave marker in 2002.

Journalist Withheld Information About Emmett Till’s Murder, Documents Show

William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed Emmett Till, but suggest that he left it out.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on August 29, 2024

Fistfight in Peekskill, NY, 1949.

75 Years Ago, the KKK and Anti-communists Teamed Up to Violently Stop a Folk Concert in NY

Racist mobs attacked a 1949 concert in Peekskill, NY, raising anti-communist fervor and showing how hatred could gain legitimacy amid today’s political turmoil.

by Nina Silber via The Conversation on August 20, 2024

People holding antiwar signs at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A Brief History of the Democratic Party

The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.

by Doug Henwood, Adam Hilton via Jacobin on August 6, 2024

John Roberts, Lewis F. Powell Jr., and a statue of Lady Justice between them.

There’s a New Lewis Powell Memo, and It’s Wildly Racist

One young conservative lawyer would lead a determined fight to maintain Lewis Powell’s blindfolded race neutrality.

by David Daley via Slate on August 6, 2024

James Baldwin

The Brilliance in James Baldwin’s Letters

The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, was best known for his novels and essays. But correspondence was where his light shone brightest.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 2, 2024

We Can Breathe! Anti-Fascists United

What was the Popular Front? Where did it come from, and where did its energies go?

by Gabriel Winant via London Review of Books on August 1, 2024

Barry Goldwater giving a speech at the Republican National Convention.

The Republican National Convention That Shocked the Country

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

by Charles J. Holden via Made By History on July 17, 2024

Collage of Stop Cop City protestors and Coca Cola products.

No Atlanta Way

Stop Cop City meets the establishment.

by Sam Worley via The Drift on June 28, 2024

Black student looking up at a school bus full of white children.

The Boston ‘Busing Crisis’ Was Never About Busing

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

by Jeanne Theoharis via The Emancipator on June 19, 2024

Cover of "Suffrage Song" on left, featuring three suffragists. On right, cartoonist Caitlin Cass.

This Cartoonist Wants to Tell the Complicated History of Women’s Voting Rights

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

by Barbara Rodriguez via The 19th on June 17, 2024

AI-generated image of the “shiny object ancestor” experience.

Shiny Object Ancestors: The Ones We Can’t Resist

Tracing the family history of some of today's most popular celebrities.

by Megan Smolenyak via Megansmolenyak.com on May 21, 2024

‘Brown’ at 70

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

by Randall Kennedy via The American Prospect on May 17, 2024

Collage of photographs of U.S. Border Patrol.

The Racist Origins of America’s Broken Immigration System

How a little-known, century-old law perpetuated the odious notion that certain types of immigrants degrade our nation’s character.

by Felipe De La Hoz via The New Republic on May 1, 2024

Pro-Palestinian campus protest.

Why Colleges Don’t Know What to Do About Campus Protests

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

by Jack Hodgson via Made By History on April 29, 2024

Marlon Brando on the set of 'One-Eyed Jacks,' 1961.

Brando Unmatched

The legendary actor left a mark in both film history and an industry fraught with self-regard.

by Giancarlo Sopo via The Dispatch on April 27, 2024

Richard Slotkin.

“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin

"I was always working on a theory of America."

by Kathleen Belew, Richard S. Slotkin via Public Books on April 19, 2024

Black women gathered in discussion for an episode of "Black Journal."

“The Black Woman”

Black women activism within documentary films in the 1960s United States.

by Manar Ellethy via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 10, 2024

Aaron Douglas, detail from painting Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction, 1934.

The Cosmopolitan Modernism of the Harlem Renaissance

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.

by Rachel Himes via The Nation on April 9, 2024

James Baldwin.

What James Baldwin Saw

A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.

by Kelli Weston via The Nation on March 5, 2024

Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

In Defense of the Color-Blind Principle

Wilfred Reilly reviews two books critiquing modern ideas of race, social status, and diversity, advocating in favor of racial color-blindness.

by Wilfred Reilly via National Review on February 22, 2024

1970 Map of the United States Interstate Highway Plan

How Black Activists Have Long Used Mapmaking to Document Culture and Racism in the U.S.

The neglected history of Black mapmaking in America and the creative ways in which Black people have historically used mapping to tell stories.

by Derek H. Alderman, Joshua F. J. Inwood via PBS NewsHour on February 17, 2024

Shadowy photo of a man making scarecrow out of a plastic bag and can.

What Has Been Will Be Again

A new documentary photography project grapples with manifestations of a problematic past resurfacing in present-day Alabama.

by Jared Ragland, Catherine Wilkins via Southern Cultures on January 24, 2024

Martin Luther King, Jr. with hands raised in front of bookshelf

Martin Luther King, Critical Race Theorist

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

by Sam Hoadley-Brill via The Nation on January 15, 2024

Myisha Eatmon.

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice.

by Max J. Krupnick via Harvard Magazine on January 5, 2024

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