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Photo: "Mother Bird Protecting Her Young"

Motherhood at the End of the World

"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”
by Julietta Singh via The Paris Review on September 1, 2021
Art sculpture "House" by Rachael Whiteread, 1993 (a concrete casting of the inside of a Victorian house).

Monuments for the Interim Twenty-Four Thousand Years.

An account of the long-lasting effects of nuclear energy in the US.
by Annie Simpson via Southern Cultures on August 23, 2021
Statue of Liberty, her face in shadow.

The United States Is Not “a Nation of Immigrants”

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz via Boston Review on August 12, 2021
Haitian person with food

Haiti is Stuck in a Cycle of Upheaval. Its People Suffer The Most.

The assassination of the president is part of a pattern that undermines democracy.
by Laurent Dubois, Millery Polyné via Washington Post on July 10, 2021
Pillow and blanket on hospital bed

How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

Emily Bass on foreign aid and America's response to long-standing pandemics.
by Emily Bass via Literary Hub on July 8, 2021
George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism

Initially supportive of Belgian King Leopold II’s claim to have created a “free state” of Congo, Williams changed his mind when he saw the horrors of empire.
by Mohammed Elnaiem via JSTOR Daily on June 10, 2021
Illustration of black calvary officers with a Native American, circa 1874

Is This Land Made for You and Me?

How African Americans came to Indian Territory after the Civil War.
by Alaina E. Roberts via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 26, 2021
Title page of a collection of the letters that debated Great Britain, inscribed to President John Adams.

Massachusettensis and Novanglus: The Last Great Debate Prior to the American Revolution

James M. Smith explains the last debates between Loyalists and Patriots prior to the official outbreak of the American Revolution.
by James M. Smith via Journal of the American Revolution on May 25, 2021
American Progress by John Gast, 1872. Painting depicting an angel hovering above white settlers heading west.

On Nostalgia and Colonialism on the New Oregon Trail

What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?
by T. J. Tallie via Hyperallergic on May 16, 2021
Lady Liberty bust in a park.

The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism

Liberty for some has always entailed a lack of liberty for many others.
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via The Nation on May 3, 2021
US military boarding a plan

History's Warning for the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather than a source of security.
by Priya Satia via TIME on April 27, 2021

What the 'America First Caucus' Gets Wrong on Anglo-Saxon History

"Everything's sort of layered on a false understanding of history."
by Olivia B. Waxman, Mary Rambaran-Olm via TIME on April 21, 2021
Asian-American men waiting to be questioned by white police officers

Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by Mae Ngai via The Atlantic on April 21, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (left), "Empire's Mistress" book cover with image of Isabel Cooper (right)

The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
by Noah Flora, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez via The Nation on April 5, 2021
Two people speaking together across a border.

The Competing Visions of English and Esperanto

How English and Esperanto offer competing visions of a universal language.
by Stephanie Tam via The Believer on April 1, 2021
1886 British Empire Map

Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.
by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 16, 2021
Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021
The ship, Jose Gaspar, in Tampa Bay during the Gasparilla Festival

The True History and Swashbuckling Myth Behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Namesake

Pirates did roam the Gulf Coast, but more myths than facts have inspired the regional folklore.
by Nora McGreevy via Smithsonian on February 4, 2021
Alt-right man holding an American flag with no shirt but a bull-horned headress on.

The Hour of the Barbarian

What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.
by Vincent Bevins via n+1 on January 11, 2021
Illustration of a coastline with indications of industry and farming

Human History and the Hunger for Land

From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.
by Francisco Cantú via The New Yorker on January 11, 2021
"Join or Die" snake political cartoon.

The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s 'These Truths'

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.
by Ned Blackhawk via Diplomatic History on December 29, 2020
Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl's Anti-Black Racism

The first edition of the beloved novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory featured "pygmy" characters taken from Africa.
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 10, 2020
Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud in a formal portrait arranged by William Blackmore, whose hand is visible at right

The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.
by David Treuer via New York Review of Books on November 11, 2020
Charles Milton Bell, Apsáalooke Delegation, 1880.

Apsáalooke Bacheeítuuk in Washington, DC

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.
by Wendy Red Star, Shannon Vittoria via Panorama on October 1, 2020
The Alchemy of Conquest book cover

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World

How scientific thought informed colonization and religious conversion during the Age of Discovery.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Not Even Past on September 22, 2020
School room in rural Cidra, Puerto Rico

On Language and Colony

A linguistic trajectory of Puerto Rico's identity as the world’s oldest colony.
by Bianca P. Napoleoni Gregory via Library of Congress on September 21, 2020
Wabanaki people paddling canoes near bridge

The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone

Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage.
by Mali Obomsawin via Boston Globe Magazine on September 15, 2020

The Stench of Colonialism Mars These Bird Names. They Must Be Changed.

Having a species named after you is an honor. Not everyone deserves it.
by Gabriel Foley, Jordan Rutter via Washington Post on August 4, 2020

How the Failures of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty Set the Stage for Today’s Anti-Racist Uprisings

In 1920, like 2020, race became the pivot of a historic turning point.
by Elizabeth Thompson via The Conversation on August 3, 2020
A graphic featuring a map of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and slavery imagery.

Cancer Alley

A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.
by Monique Michelle Verdin via Southern Cultures on August 1, 2020
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