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A History of Incarceration by Women Who Have Lived Through It
The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project scrutinize official records not only for what they reveal, but also for what they omit.
by
Rachael Bedard
via
The New Yorker
on
May 22, 2023
Layered Lives
Rhetoric and representation in the Southern Life History Project.
by
Lauren Tilton
,
Taylor Arnold
,
Courtney Rivard
via
Stanford University Press
on
August 30, 2022
Looking for an American Myth
The fevered hunt for basic symbols.
by
John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
on
February 6, 2022
The Slippery Matter of ‘Truth’ in Patriotic Education
Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.
by
Timothy Messer-Kruse
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
August 5, 2021
Men in Dark Times
How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency.
by
Rebecca Panovka
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Harper’s
on
July 14, 2021
How Aztecs Told History
For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices.
by
Camilla Townsend
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Aeon
on
August 10, 2020
Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972
A landslide that exposed racial inequalities embedded in Appalachian communities.
by
Jillean McCommons
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Black Perspectives
on
June 16, 2020
The Left Side of History
Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.
by
Allen C. Guelzo
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Claremont Review of Books
on
May 4, 2020
You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History
“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”
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Natasha Trethewey
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Southern Cultures
on
March 21, 2020
Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies
How early blues musicians processed the toll taken by tornadoes, floods, and other disasters that displaced them from their communities.
by
J. T. Roane
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Black Perspectives
on
March 16, 2020
Story-Shaped Things
Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.
by
Jonathan W. Wilson
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Contingent
on
October 16, 2019
Democracy and Misinformation
The Cold War and today.
by
Jennifer M. Miller
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Perspectives on History
on
June 10, 2019
We Hold These Ideas to Be Self-Evident
Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.
by
Michael Kimmage
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
April 29, 2019
How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom
The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.
by
Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
on
March 25, 2019
The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”
Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.
by
Christine DeLucia
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
January 10, 2019
Amid the Online Glut of Facts and Fake News, We’re Teaching History Wrong
This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.
by
Rebecca Onion
,
Sam Wineburg
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Slate
on
September 18, 2018
Can History Avoid Conspiracy?
Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
by
Andy Seal
via
U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
June 4, 2018
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