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Remnants of the New Deal Order

We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on April 13, 2020

Graffito picture of Richard Nixon superimposed on lines an German text.

Richard Nixon, Modular Man

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.

by Phil Christman via The Hedgehog Review on April 6, 2020

You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History

“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”

by Natasha Trethewey via Southern Cultures on March 21, 2020

‘A Once-in-a-Century Pathogen’: The 1918 Pandemic & This One

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.

by Mark Honigsbaum via New York Review of Books on March 17, 2020

Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies

How early blues musicians processed the toll taken by tornadoes, floods, and other disasters that displaced them from their communities.

by J. T. Roane via Black Perspectives on March 16, 2020

Statue of John Winthrop

"City on a Hill" and the Making of an American Origin Story

A now-famous Puritan sermon was nothing special in its own day.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on February 18, 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

Rules of Engagement

The value of shame in objects.

by Wendy S. Walters via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 5, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020

It's 2020 and You're in the Future

Some people are young, just not you.

by Tim Urban via Wait But Why on January 2, 2020

Street signs on the corner of Rosa L. Parks Avenue and North Jeff Davis Avenue.

Atlas of Southern Memory

An interactive map of public commemoration of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in the South.

by Caroline Klibanoff via Atlas of Southern Memory on December 31, 2019

The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on December 23, 2019

Before And After

The allegations against Michael Jackson make listening to his songs a struggle, one that resists the comfort those songs once provided.

by Ann Powers via NPR on December 11, 2019

The Invention of Thanksgiving

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on November 18, 2019

Drawing of Puritans.

How Should We Remember the Puritans?

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

by Andrew Delbanco via The Nation on November 18, 2019

The Legend of Big Ole

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.

by Rachel Boyle via Belt Magazine on November 14, 2019

Whose Boots on the Ground

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?

by Kiley Bense via Longreads on November 7, 2019

How to Forget

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

by Sebastian Stockman via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 14, 2019

The Battle to Rewrite Texas History

Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.

by Christopher Hooks via Texas Monthly on September 18, 2019

Muskets! Axes! Revolt! Here Are the Plans for a Reenactment of an Actual 1811 Rebellion

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.

by Julian Lucas via Vanity Fair on September 9, 2019

Reflections on a Silent Soldier

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.

by Robin Kirk via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019

Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."

by Asif Siddiqi via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 28, 2019

Working Off the Past, from Atlanta to Berlin

A Jewish American reflects on a life spent amidst the ghosts of the American South and the former capital of the Reich.

by Susan Neiman via New York Review of Books on August 26, 2019

The Misconception About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

Other than being alive during the 1960s, the baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the era's social and political upheaval.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 18, 2019

Rethinking the Construction of Ronald Reagan's Legacy

Conservatives created a rosy image of Reagan to further their political project.

by Sarah Thomson via Made By History on August 12, 2019

Damaged Confederate statue on pallet in warehouse.

A Confederate Statue Graveyard Could Help Bury The Old South

A proposal to follow the model several former Soviet States have pioneered, to deal with our own monuments to the Confederacy.

by Jordan Brasher, Derek H. Alderman via The Conversation on July 26, 2019

It Can Happen Here

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat.

by Timothy Snyder via Slate on July 12, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?

via Contingent on July 1, 2019

Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 19, 2019

Marchers holding banner at Pride parade

The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start the Gay Rights Movement

Giving Stonewall too much credit misses the movement’s growing strength in the 1960s, sociologists note.

by Greggor Mattson via JSTOR Daily on June 12, 2019

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