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The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
by James Oakes via The Nation on July 15, 2019
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The Black Woman Who Launched The Modern Fight For Reparations

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.
by Ashley D. Farmer via Made By History on June 24, 2019
The signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux depicted by painter Francis David Millet in 1885.

Dakota Uprooted: Capitalism, Resilience, and the U.S.-Dakota War

White American empire transformed Minnesota into an agricultural and extraction-based economy that uprooted Dakota from their traditional homelands.
by John R. Legg via The Activist History Review on June 10, 2019
Two people studying law books.

Repository of Historical Gun Laws

The Duke Center for Firearms Law's efforts to catalog the history of gun laws.
via Duke Center For Firearms Law on June 1, 2019
1928 political cartoon of Republican hypocrisy for calling Democrats corrupt.

Interchange: Corruption Has a History

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.
by Mary Frances Berry, Paula Baker, Daniel Czitrom, Barbara Hahn, James Kloppenberg, Naomi Lamoreaux, David Witwer via Journal of American History on March 1, 2019

The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government

What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Atlantic on January 31, 2019

The Making of an Iconic Photograph: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother

The complex backstory of one of the most famous images of the Great Depression.
by Jason Kottke via kottke.org on January 31, 2019

Before Black Lung, the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds

A forgotten example of the dangers of silica, the toxic dust behind the modern black lung epidemic in Appalachia.
by Adelina Lancianese via NPR on January 20, 2019
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; painting by Henry Inman, 1832.

Hail to the Chief

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”
by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on November 22, 2018

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
853 map of San Francisco by the U. S. Coast Survey

Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on September 21, 2018
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. in 1957.

Common Core Is a Menace to Pluralism and Democracy

But can locally empowered communities really fix our schools' problems?
by Johann N. Neem via The American Conservative on June 19, 2018
How a group of Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island and their own destinies.

This Land is Our Land: The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz

From November 1969 to June 1971, 89 Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and their own destinies.
by Mariah-Rose Marie M, Eleri Harris via The Nib on June 11, 2018
Mural painting of people on a subway.

The Muralist and Enumerator

How a census taker and an artist were participants to the grand project of displaying and explaining America to itself.
by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on June 2, 2018
President Trump and religious leaders praying in the Oval Office
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Today is a National Day of Prayer. Should That be Legal?

How solid is the wall between church and state?
by David B. Gowler via Made By History on May 3, 2018
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The United States Needs More Bureaucracy, Not Less

If too much partisanship is the problem, more bureaucracy might be the answer.
by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on August 9, 2017

The Making of an Antislavery President

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on June 23, 2017

How the ‘Hamilton Effect’ Distorts the Founders

Too often, we look to history not to understand it, but to seek out confirmation for our preexisting beliefs. That’s a problem.
by Mike Lee via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017
Syrian float in the Chicago Liberty Day parade, 1918.

What We Can Learn from America’s Other Muslim Ban (Back in 1918)

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.
by Stacy Fahrenthold via Tropics of Meta on February 8, 2017
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016

What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.
by Rebecca Onion, Manisha Sinha via Slate on June 14, 2016
Sign reading "Is your child vaccinated?"
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Contagion

How prior generations of Americans responded to the threat of infectious disease.
via BackStory on February 19, 2016

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015
Lithograph of Freedman's Bureau official separating freedmen from hostile whites.

The Freedmen's Bureau

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Hillary Brady via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015

John Brown: The First American to Hang for Treason

The militant abolitionist's execution set a precedent for armed resistance against the federal government with implications for those who had condemned him.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on December 2, 2014
Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.
by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014
Illustration of a proslavery mob raiding a post office in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1835.
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How Much Is Too Much?

The dramatic story of the abolitionist mail crisis of 1835.
via BackStory on December 7, 2012

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800

For decades, historians believed that the Department's files had been lost forever. Now copies of those files are available in this searchable digital archive.
via Roy Rosenzweig Center For History & New Media on January 1, 2011
Caricature drawing of Charles Black

Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.
by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on September 24, 1998
A dairy farm near Charlottesville (Library of Congress).

'Charlottesville': A Government-Commissioned Story About Nuclear War

A fictional 1979 account of how the small Virginia city would weather an all-out nuclear exchange between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
by Nan Randall via The Atlantic on January 1, 1979
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