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How George Washington Held Officials Accountable for Border Violence
And what Congress can learn from his efforts.
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Grace Mallon
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Made by History
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July 16, 2019
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A Federal Court Has Ruled Blood Cannot Determine Tribal Citizenship. Here’s Why That Matters.
The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.
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Alaina E. Roberts
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Made by History
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March 9, 2024
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Beyond Dispossession
For generations, depictions of Native Americans have reduced them to either aggressors or victims. But at many public history sites, that is starting to change.
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Ed Ayers
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December 6, 2023
How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land
From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-nominated "Unworthy Republic."
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Claudio Saunt
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Literary Hub
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October 14, 2020
Half the Land in Oklahoma Could be Returned to Native Americans. It Should Be.
A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.
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Rebecca Nagle
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Washington Post
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November 28, 2018
‘Our Father, the President’
George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.
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Susan Dunn
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New York Review of Books
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March 15, 2018
America's Other Original Sin
Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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January 18, 2016
What a Historical Analysis of Gunpowder Can Teach Us About Gun Culture in the United States
An understanding of the history of gunpowder might be able to tell us how and why guns have become so widely accessible in the present-day United States.
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Jennifer Monroe McCutchen
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The Panorama
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October 2, 2023
Behind 'Oklahoma!' Lies the Remarkable Story of a Gay Cherokee Playwright
Lynn Riggs wrote the play that served as the basis of the hit 1943 musical.
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Jennie Rothenburg Gritz
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Smithsonian
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March 30, 2023
How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations
On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.
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Joel Richard Paul
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Literary Hub
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October 25, 2022
Declaring War
Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?
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William Hogeland
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Hogeland's Bad History
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March 2, 2022
L’Ouverture High School: Race, Place, and Memory in Oklahoma
A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.
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Erica Johnson Edwards
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Age of Revolutions
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September 28, 2020
Was Indian Removal Genocidal?
Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.
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Jeffrey Ostler
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The Panorama
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August 4, 2020
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Trump Thinks Andrew Jackson’s Statue Is a Great Monument — But to What?
The truth about policies of Native American removal.
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Jeffrey Ostler
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Made by History
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June 24, 2020
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The Police Chief Who Inspired Trump’s Tweet Glorifying Violence
Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.
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Julio Capó Jr.
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Made by History
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June 1, 2020
Indian Removal
One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.
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Claudio Saunt
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Aeon
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April 23, 2020
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The Civil War and the Black West
On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.
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William Loren Katz
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HNN
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August 18, 2019
How White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest's Mysterious Mounds
Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.
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Sarah E. Baires
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Zócalo Public Square
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February 22, 2018
Was the Real Lone Ranger a Black Man?
The amazing true story of Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who patrolled the Wild West.
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Thaddeus Morgan
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HISTORY
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February 1, 2018
Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
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Nancy Schurr
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Digital Public Library of America
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September 18, 2017
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