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World War I Relived Day by Day
Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.
by
Patrick Chovanec
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 8, 2018
Civil War Life in all its Day-to-Day Contrasts
In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.
by
James Oakes
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Washington Post
on
October 27, 2017
The Accidental Patriots
Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.
by
Caitlin Fitz
via
The Atlantic
on
December 1, 2016
Your Family: Past, Present, and Future
The past, present, and future of your family tree are all far more fascinating than you realize.
by
Tim Urban
via
Wait But Why
on
January 28, 2014
80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945
Declassified documents show atomic testing in New Mexico distributed radioactive matter to an extent that the scientists at Los Alamos were ill-prepared for.
by
William Burr
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National Security Archive
on
July 16, 2025
My Freedom, My Choice
A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.
by
David A. Bell
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New York Review of Books
on
June 5, 2025
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So Ductile Is History in the Hands of Man!
The past and present of counterfactual history, from antiquity to the Napoleonic Wars to a few very active subreddits.
by
Madeline Grimm
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HNN
on
May 13, 2025
“Endless Bad Infinity”
A conversation with the creators of a podcast series on the feedback loop of American empire.
by
Charlotte Rosen
,
Noah Kulwin
,
Brendan James
via
Public Books
on
April 22, 2025
Brad DeLong’s Long March Through the 20th Century
A sweeping new history chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by markets and innovation.
by
Thomas Strand
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Jacobin
on
December 15, 2024
Pieces of the Past at the Doctors House: Glendale, California
How one house can contain larger stories of American migration and growth, reckonings with exclusion, and the advent of new technologies.
by
Katherine Hobbs
via
Public Books
on
March 21, 2024
American Fascism
On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.
by
Rick Perlstein
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The American Prospect
on
January 24, 2024
The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa
As evangelicals worked to gain public legitimacy during the Cold War, historians of evangelicalism search for a usable past for their fellow believers.
by
Gene Zubovich
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Process: A Blog for American History
on
January 23, 2024
Impossible Systems: On Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland”
The visa lottery reveals the inherent myths and contradictions at play in the US immigration system.
by
Tim Hirschel-Burns
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 13, 2023
"If America Doesn't Become America": Outlander and the American Revolution
"Outlander" challenges the myth of American exceptionalism at the root of much U.S. popular culture.
by
Michelle Orihel
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Age of Revolutions
on
July 3, 2023
Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years.
The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.
by
Joseph Stieb
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Texas National Security Review
on
June 6, 2023
The Long Afterlife of Libertarianism
As a movement, it has imploded. As a credo, it’s here to stay.
by
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
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The New Yorker
on
May 29, 2023
Native American Histories Show Rebuilding is Possible — and Necessary — After Catastrophe
What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.
by
B. L. Blanchard
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Vox
on
March 24, 2023
‘Birchers,’ a Well-Told, Familiar Entry in the ‘How We Got to Trump’ Genre
In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”
by
Sam Adler-Bell
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Washington Post
on
March 22, 2023
The Fringe Group That Broke the GOP’s Brain — And Helped It Win Elections
The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.
by
Matthew Dallek
,
Ian Ward
via
Vox
on
March 19, 2023
The Betrayal of Adam Smith
How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The New Republic
on
February 27, 2023
Confronting the Iraq War
Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.
by
Joseph Stieb
via
War on the Rocks
on
January 30, 2023
Contest or Conquest?
How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
Harper’s
on
October 11, 2022
Abortion and Partisan Entrenchment
The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.
by
Jack Balkin
via
Social Science Research Network
on
September 14, 2022
My Mom Fought For Title IX, but It Almost Didn’t Happen
When the personal and professional lives of Hawai'i Congresswoman Patsy Mink collided.
via
New York Times Op-Docs
on
June 23, 2022
The View from Here
Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?
by
Errol Morris
via
Air Mail
on
June 4, 2022
The Long Crisis on Rikers Island
A new book about Rikers Island is essentially a labor history, revealing how jail guards seized control from managers, politicians, and judges.
by
Brendan O'Connor
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The Baffler
on
May 12, 2022
The Many American Revolutions
Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home.
by
Eric Foner
via
The Nation
on
April 4, 2022
The Christmas Carol Canon That Could Have Been
Pheasants? 'Dickory dock'? Toyland? Here's how a narrow slice of American history changed the holidays forever.
by
Addison Del Mastro
via
The Spectator
on
December 21, 2021
The Changing Same of U.S. History
Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
November 10, 2021
Playing with the Past: Teaching Slavery with Board Games
Board games invite discussions of counterfactuality and contingency, resisting the teleology and determinism that are so common to looking backward in time.
by
Patrick Rael
via
Perspectives on History
on
October 13, 2021
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