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The Edge of the Map

Monsters have always patrolled the margins of the map. By their very strangeness, they determined the boundaries of the regular world.
by Colin Dickey via The Paris Review on July 23, 2020
A painting of two people

Dispatches from 1918

Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
by Radiolab via WNYC on July 17, 2020
Map of Boston from 1722.

This "Miserable African": Race, Crime, and Disease in Colonial Boston

The murder that challenged Cotton Mather’s complex views about race, slavery, and Christianity.
by Mark S. Weiner via Commonplace on July 13, 2020
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.

The Nativist Tradition

Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.
by Joel Suarez via Dissent on July 6, 2020
Statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, knocked off its pedastal

whentheycamedown

A collaborative project that set out in the summer of 2020 to document the removal of monuments through both official and unofficial channels.
via whentheycamedown.com on July 1, 2020
Roosevelt statue

Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.
by Nick Mirzoeff via Hyperallergic on June 30, 2020
Youth members of a German-American Bund camp raising a flag, 1934.

American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 22, 2020
Historical marker in Artillery Park.

Cast in Iron?

Rethinking our historical monuments.
by Jaime Fuller via AdirondackLife on June 1, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.
by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

American Torture

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via Aeon on February 20, 2020
A man wearing a white shirt with a black "L," with people holding flags in the background

How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.
by Donna Rifkind via Literary Hub on February 7, 2020
The author at a Feminary Collective meeting with co-members Eleanor Holland (left) and Helen Langa (center) in Durham. Photo by Elena Freedom.

The Queer South: Where The Past is Not Past, and The Future is Now

Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.
by Minnie Bruce Pratt via Scalawag on January 27, 2020

The History Behind One of America’s Most Beloved Desserts

The origins of the praline candy can be traced back to enslaved black women in Louisiana.
by Myles Poydras via The Atlantic on January 5, 2020
The cover of Cynthia A. Kierner's "Inventing Disaster," which depicts a shipwreck during a storm.

On Inventing Disaster

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.
by Cynthia Kierner, Anna Faison via UNC Press Blog on November 20, 2019

Can Colonial Nations Truly Recognise the Sovereignty of Indigenous People?

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?
by Pekka Hämäläinen via Aeon on October 2, 2019
Margaret Mead in front of a bookshelf, with a book in hand

How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity

A brave band of scholars set out to save us from racism and sexism. What happened?
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 29, 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
Painting of people examining a globe that depicts California as an island.

California, an Island?

Meet cartography's most persistent mistake.
by Frank Jacobs via Big Think on July 7, 2019

It Isn’t Independence Day For Everyone

If the British had won the Revolutionary War, things might be very different for Native Americans.
by Steve Teare via The Nib on July 4, 2019
Map of Tongva villages in the area that is now Los Angeles.

Mapping the Tongva Villages of L.A.'s Past

The original people of Los Angeles, the Tongva, defined their world as Tovaangar.
by Sean Greene, Thomas Curwen via Los Angeles Times on May 9, 2019
An engraving of a boat in the water.

"Interior" by Design

Despite the Interior Department’s name, the agency has played a key role in the construction of American foreign policy and territorial expansion.
by Sam Ratner, Megan Black via Fellow Travelers on March 28, 2019

Colorizing and Fictionalizing the Past

The technical wizardry of Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" should not obscure its narrow, outdated storyline.
by Bridget Keown via Nursing Clio on February 12, 2019
Trix cereal logo with bunny mascot

The White Rabbit and His Colorful Tricks

Breakfast cereal, dietary purity, and race.
by Catherine Keyser via Cabinet on November 16, 2018

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018
partner

How Pocahontas—The Myth and the Slur—Props Up White Supremacy

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.
by Honor Sachs via Made By History on October 16, 2018
Bottles of powdered pigments.

Treasures from the Color Archive

The historic pigments in the Forbes Collection include the esoteric, the expensive, and the toxic.
by Simon Schama via The New Yorker on August 27, 2018

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

They Fought and Died for America. Then America Turned Its Back.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.
by Hertz Alegrio via Narratively on July 3, 2018

Bias Training at Starbucks Is a Reminder That the History of Racism Is About Who Belongs Where

A central component of the history of racism is the intersection in which geography and race collide.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on May 29, 2018
Book cover of "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia."

Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.
by Elizabeth Catte, Regan Penaluna via Guernica on March 7, 2018
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