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Frederick Douglass and the Haiti Commission on USS Tennessee in Key West.

Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on December 9, 2021

Joe Biden Is Not Jimmy Carter, and This Is Not the 1970s

The right’s facile comparisons of the two presidents miss the vastly different circumstances facing Biden and distort Carter’s record.
by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on October 16, 2021
Depiction of an agricultural fair with crowds of people gathered around exhibit halls.

Slavery, Technology and the Social Origins of the US Agricultural State

Ariel Ron discusses the rise of the agricultural state in his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic.
by Ariel Ron via Broadstreet on September 3, 2021
Cuban Women class photo at Harvard University in the summer of 1900.

‘Cuba: An American History’ Review: That Infernal Little Republic

Cuba has spent its entire existence as a state and much of its late colonial past in Uncle Sam’s purported backyard.
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto via The Wall Street Journal on September 3, 2021
OPA rent control promotional poster

Wartime Wisdom to Combat Inflation

FDR managed inflation during World War II through government policy. Today’s calamities call for a similar approach.
by David Stein via Democracy Journal on August 31, 2021
A temporary writing.

The Once and Future Temp

What can the history of the temp-work industry teach us about the precarity of modern working life?
by Eve Zelickson via Public Books on August 27, 2021
View from the Empire State Building, August 1975.

A Crisis Without Keynes: The 1975 New York City Fiscal Crisis Revisited

An analysis of the factors that contributed to NYC's massive financial crisis in the 1970s, and the austere solutions that perpetuated it.
by Michael Beyea Reagan via The Gotham Center on August 12, 2021
Pennsylvania Avenue

A City-State for The Nation

The fallout of the January 6th riot and its effect on D.C. statehood.
by Alan Lessoff via The Metropole on August 9, 2021
People holding Haitian Flag at a march

A Timeline Of U.S.–Haiti Relations

Key events in the relationship between the two nations, as compiled by The Onion.
via The Onion on July 23, 2021
Photo collage of different families interspersed with population charts, census data books, and maps

The Story of Families, Wrested From Big Data

Records tell the story of the decline of the patriarchy, marrying young, and pandemic fallout. Digitizing the data could reveal even richer tales.
by Eryn Brown, Steven Ruggles via Knowable Magazine on July 15, 2021

Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
by Karin Wulf via Aeon on July 15, 2021
Picture of a parent holding a child in a run-down room

The US Hasn't Changed How it Measures Who's Poor Since LBJ Began His War

Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America's poor, which is necessary to helping them.
by Mark Robert Rank via The Conversation on July 12, 2021
Lithograph of Monongahela River bridge
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The Girders of Steel City's History

Pittsburgh as a symbol of America itself.
by Ed Simon via HNN on July 11, 2021
Restaurant with 'Help Wanted' sign
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‘Help Wanted’ Signs Indicate Lack of Decent Job Offers, Not People Unwilling to Work

The 19th-century antecedent to today’s complaints of labor shortage.
by Samuel Niu via Made By History on June 30, 2021
A map marking The Bahamas with a pin of its flag.

In the 1930s, the Bahamas Became a Tax Problem for Treasury

When struggling with tax enforcement, rich countries have long tried to shift blame to poor countries.
by Joseph J. Thorndike via Forbes on June 24, 2021
Photo of economist Albert Hisrchman surrounded by abstract drawings

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It

For economist Albert Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty.
by Simon Torracinta via Boston Review on June 17, 2021
Refugees after Tulsa Race Massacre

How 24 Hours of Racist Violence Caused Decades of Harm

A century after a white mob attacked a thriving Black community in Tulsa, digitized census records are bringing the economic damage into clearer focus.
by Jeremy Cook, Jason Long via The Atlantic on May 24, 2021
A map of the eastern US, with a line from Washington DC to St. Louis.

The Ill-Fated Idea to Move the Nation's Capital to St. Louis

In the years after the Civil War, some wanted a new seat of government that would be closer to the geographic center of a growing nation.
by Livia Gershon via Smithsonian on April 22, 2021
Illustration of Native Americans on horseback attacking a mail coach

How the U.S. Postal Service Forever Changed the West

A new book argues that mail service played a critical role in the U.S. government’s westward expansion and occupation of Native lands.
by Cameron Blevins, Laura Bliss via CityLab on April 21, 2021
A home in Paramus, New Jersey.

Slavery's Legacy Is Written All Over North Jersey, If You Know Where to Look

New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, and our early economy was built on unpaid labor.
by Julia Martin via North Jersey on February 28, 2021
class politics graphic of voters facing off

The Politics of a Second Gilded Age

Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 17, 2021
Black man drinking from a segregated water fountain.

Caste Does Not Explain Race

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
by Charisse Burden-Stelly via Boston Review on December 14, 2020
cartoon drawing of street with for sale signs in front of every house

The Steal of the Century

How banks ripped off Americans, destroyed Black wealth, and got away with it.
by Matt Bors, Kazimir Lee via The Nib on October 26, 2020
Influenza newspaper report

What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time

Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.
by Ethan J. Kytle via Tropics of Meta on September 25, 2020
A photograph of enslaved laborers picking and carrying cotton in a field near Montgomery, Alabama.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price

The debate between historians and economists over the definition of capitalism, and the legacy of slavery in the structure of today's economy.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Johnny Fulfer via The Economic Historian on August 3, 2020
Toppled Howitzers Monument in Richmond, VA

American Oligarchy

A review of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America."
by Nicholas Misukanis via Commonweal on June 23, 2020

We Used to Run This Country

Iran and surplus imperialism.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on June 22, 2020
A sign that reads "We Want White Tenants in Our White Community." Two American flags are on top of the sign.

Highway Robbery

How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.
by Jade Chowning, Erin Keith, Geoff Leonard via ArcGIS StoryMaps on June 8, 2020
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One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 20, 2020
A drawing of corn

Unpacking Winthrop's Boxes

Winthrop's specimens illustrated an alteration of the New World environment and the political economy of New England according to Winthrop's careful designs.
by Matthew Underwood via Commonplace on May 11, 2020
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