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A photograph of Patrice Lamumba, superimposed on an outline of Africa and the CIA's seal.

When America Helped Assassinate an African Leader

The murder of independent Congo’s first prime minister, the subject of a new book, had lasting psychological effects on the whole continent.
by Michela Wrong via The Atlantic on October 23, 2023
Colonists in front of the Old State House in Boston.

‘King Hancock’ Review: The Biggest Name in Boston

More than an artful calligrapher, John Hancock forswore the austerity of his fellow Bostonians, and their extremism.
by William Anthony Hay via The Wall Street Journal on October 6, 2023
The 1622 Hessel Gerritsz map of the Pacific Ocean.

Asians In Early America

Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru.
by Diego Javier Luis via Aeon on June 13, 2023
Canons arrayed at the historic Yorktown battlefield.

What If There Was Never a Revolution?

A new book considers the possible alternative outcomes of the battles in America's war for independence.
by Katrina Gulliver via Law & Liberty on May 2, 2023
Detail of a five-shilling Massachusetts Colony note, the only surviving piece of the colony’s 1690 legal tender.

‘Easy Money’ Review: The Currency and the Commonwealth

Saddled with debt and forbidden by the crown to mint money, Boston’s Puritans dreamed up a novel monetary system that we still use today.
by Adam Rowe via The Wall Street Journal on March 31, 2023
The historic campus of the College of William & Mary, drawn ca. 1740 by John Bartram.

William & Mary's Nottoway Quarter: The Political Economy of Institutional Slavery and Settler Colonialism

The school was funded by colonial taxation of tobacco grown by forced labor on colonized Indian lands.
by Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Buck Woodard via Commonplace on January 3, 2023
Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville

‘A Great Democratic Revolution’

Alexis de Tocqueville left France to study the American prison system and returned with the material that would become “Democracy in America.”
by Lynn A. Hunt via New York Review of Books on November 17, 2022
Portrait of Samuel Adams with sunglasses photoshopped onto his face.

How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

Pseudonyms allowed Adams to audition ideas and venture out on limbs without fear of reprisal.
by Stacy Schiff via Literary Hub on November 3, 2022
Drawing of people gathered around a speaker at the liberty tree.

The Letter That Helped Start a Revolution

The Town of Boston’s invention of the standing committee 250 years ago provided a means for building consensus during America’s nascent independence movement.
by Livia Gershon, William B. Warner via JSTOR Daily on November 2, 2022
A girl sits on a cot as she floats it across a flooded street in Baluchistan province on Oct. 4.
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A History of U.S. Interference Worsened Pakistan’s Devastating Floods

Development aid targeted for water as an economic and technical matter had environmental and financial consequences.
by Maira Hayat via Made By History on October 12, 2022
An American soldier guards a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., on May 23, 1943.
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Is it Possible to Condemn One Empire Without Upholding Another?

The danger of making wars into moral crusades.
by Moon-Ho Jung via Made By History on May 22, 2022
Illustration of Ken Burns

The Unbearable Whiteness of Ken Burns

The filmmaker’s new documentary on Benjamin Franklin tells an old and misleading story.
by Timothy Messer-Kruse via The Chronicle of Higher Education on April 20, 2022
English painting of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe.

The Moment That Changed Colonial-Indigenous Relations Forever

How a massacre on March 22, 1622 irrevocably shaped relations between Indigenous Americans and English colonists.
by Peter C. Mancall via TIME on March 22, 2022
Kwame Nkrumah, an anticolonial activist and the first Ghanaian president, pictured John F. Kennedy.

White Malice and the Racist Plunder of U.S. Empire

How American racism, capitalism, and imperialism led the U.S. to sabotage African democracies.
by Jesse Robertson via The Activist History Review on March 7, 2022

American Revolutionary Geographies Online

Discover the stories, spaces, and people of the American Revolutionary War era through maps, interpretive essays, and interactives.
via American Revolutionary Geographies Online on February 8, 2022
Black and white photo of construction workers, high up in a building, looking down over industrialized NYC.

The History of the United States as the History of Capitalism

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on November 1, 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

Was Declaring Independence Even Important?

Reflections on the latest public debate between historians about the causes of the American Revolution.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on September 15, 2021

Minority Rule Cannot Last in America

It never has.
by Kenneth Owen via The Atlantic on December 2, 2020

Human Crap: The Idea of ‘Disposability’ Is a New and Noxious Fiction

We are demigods of discards – but our copious garbage became a toxic burden only with the modern cult of ‘disposability.’
by Gabrielle Hecht via Aeon on March 25, 2020
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The Revolutions

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.
via Future Of America's Past on March 16, 2020

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.
by Serena Zabin via Literary Hub on February 20, 2020
Aerial view of a fortress in Puerto Rico.

Telling the History of the U.S. Through Its Territories

“How to Hide an Empire,” explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48.
by Daniel Immerwahr, Anna Diamond via Smithsonian on January 1, 2019
Map of western states with straight borders.

Why Are U.S. Borders Straight Lines?

The ever-shifting curve of shoreline and river is no match for the infinite, idealized straight line.
by Ed Simon, David E. Smith, Patrick Spero, Rosemary J. Coombe, Charles Desmond Dutrizac, Harald Bauder, Santa Arias, Geoffrey Kaeuper via JSTOR Daily on October 20, 2018

No 'King of Kings'

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.
by Sara Georgini via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 3, 2017

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
Slave revolt in Haiti.

The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.
by Nicholas Foreman via Smithsonian on January 5, 2016
cannabis plant

Marijuana's Early History in the United States

Smokeable pot's proliferation in North America involves the Mexican Revolution, the transatlantic slave trade, and Prohibition.
by Barney Warf, Mark Hay via Vice on March 31, 2015

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