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The front pages of major newspapers the day after the Greensboro Massacre.

Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on August 25, 2017

From Boy Geniuses to Mad Scientists

How Americans got so weird about science.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on August 4, 2017

Asking the Tough Questions With an 18th-Century Debate Society

Is polygamy justifiable? Is it lawful to eat swine's flesh?
by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on July 24, 2017

Why Do Schoolhouses Matter?

The rise of public education in America.
by Johann N. Neem via Public Seminar on July 20, 2017

John Quincy Adams Kept a Diary and Didn’t Skimp on the Details

On the occasion of his 250th birthday, the making of our sixth president in his own words.
by Sara Georgini via Smithsonian on July 11, 2017
Henry Adams writing.

The Miseducation of Henry Adams

Henry Adams's classic autobiography speaks to concerns of privilege, failure, and progress in his rapidly changing world.
by Michael Lindgren via The Millions on June 30, 2017
A worker prepares to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis.

How Robert E. Lee Got Knocked Off His Pedestal

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.
by Michael "Quess" Moore, Brentin Mock via CityLab on May 29, 2017
Screen shot from the Oregon Trail computer game.

The Oregon Trail, MECC, and the Rise of Computer Learning

Perhaps the oldest continuously available video game ever made; its history in documents and objects.
via The Strong National Museum of Play on May 25, 2017

The Core Concepts of American Public Broadcasting Turn 50

An analysis of the Carnegie Commission's 1967 report shows that public broadcasting has always been a politically fraught issue.
by Joseph Lichterman via Nieman Lab on January 27, 2017

Twenty-First Century Victorians

The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.
by Jason Tebbe via Jacobin on October 31, 2016
Calhoun College building at Yale University.

Don’t Repress the Past

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.
by James Livingston via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 20, 2015

Why America Needs a Slavery Museum

A wealthy white lawyer has spent 16 years and millions of dollars turning the Whitney Plantation into a memorial to the nation's past.
by Paul Rosenfeld via The Atlantic on August 25, 2015
Photograph of two of the original organizers preparing for the first Earth Day (1970). At left, a woman holds up two advertisements for the event. In front, a man stares into the camera (Denis Hayes) while holding a phone.

The Fate of Earth Day

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on April 8, 2013

Flora and Femininity: Gender and Botany in Early America

Embroidered orchards and peony hair ornaments testify that women were practitioners of floral display, but many women sought knowledge as well as style.
by Susan Branson via Commonplace on January 1, 2012

Their Own Talking

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.
by David P. Cline, Septima Poinsette Clark, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eugene P. Walker, Katherine Mellon Charron via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2010
Milton Bradley surrounded by colorful design

The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 14, 2007
Mel and Norma Gabler.

The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not

Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.
by William Martin via Texas Monthly on November 1, 1982
Screen capture of Fred Rogers at a desk with microphones, testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications.

Fred Rogers Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

The young Mr. Rogers brings down the house in his 1969 effort to save public broadcasting from the chopping block.
by U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation via YouTube on May 1, 1969
A painting of an election taking place.

Children Will Listen

A political education begins with knockoff opinions amid the 1840 U.S. presidential election.
by Andrew Dickson White via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 1, 1905
Freedom's Journal front page, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 16, 1827

The First African American Newspaper Appears, 1827

A letter from the creators of Freedom's Journal to their initial patrons.
by Samuel Cornish, John Brown Russwurm via Freedom's Journal on March 16, 1827
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.

A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History

How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.
by Mabel O. Wilson via Hammer & Hope on October 31, 2025
In a cotton field at night, a Black man scouts with a lantern, while a black woman passes a book to two fleeing men.

The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies

Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
by Jesse Olsavsky via Hammer & Hope on October 31, 2025
Viktor Koretsky: Breaking Chains – That's an Echo of Our Revolution! (1968)

Statemania

When the American Dream came to Africa.
by Rahmane Idrissa via Equator on October 29, 2025

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
by Noah McCormack via The Baffler on October 27, 2025
A young man reading a printed newspaper.
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The Enduring Value of Student Newspapers

More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.
by Joshua Finnell via JSTOR Daily on October 1, 2025
Students use the Clio history app at Marshall University to learn about a public art piece.
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Starting with a Question

Meet Clio, a pedagogical tool that doubles as a travel app to get people hooked on learning history.
by David Trowbridge via HNN on September 16, 2025
The author and other children picketing the Board of Education in protest of her father's firing.

A General Air of Anxiety

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
by Joan Wallach Scott via Boston Review on September 10, 2025
Lighter falling onto a pile of books.

What If History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
by David W. Blight via The New Republic on August 7, 2025
George Lunn, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and other politicans at the Democratic National Nominating Convention in 1924.
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The Socialist Mayor Who Came 100 Years Before Zohran Mamdani

George Lunn, socialist mayor of Schenectady, New York rose to power in 1911 by making a difference in people's lives.
by Andrew Morris via Made By History on July 22, 2025
Mary Virginia Montgomery

The Montgomerys of Mississippi: How a Once Enslaved Family Bought Jefferson Davis’ Plantation House

In 1872, former slave Mary Virginia Montgomery, now a cotton plantation owner, records her life’s changes after moving from slavery to self-sufficiency.
by Neely Tucker via Library of Congress Blog on July 10, 2025
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