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Alien Invasion, 1492, by Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, depicting animals with harsh lines and the word "un-erasing."

How Wikipedia Distorts Indigenous History

Native editors are fighting back.
by Kyle Keeler via Slate on February 2, 2023
Map of British colonies of North America in 1776.

Colonial America Is a Myth

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial.
by Pekka Hämäläinen via TIME on October 10, 2022
The first two panels of "Nazi Death Parade," a six-panel comic depicting the mass murder of Jews at a Nazi concentration camp August Maria Froehlich / Arco Publishing Company.

The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers

In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine.
by Esther Bergdahl via Smithsonian on May 24, 2022
Town council leader and lawyer Khalid Salman by the graves of his sister and her children, who were among the twenty-four Iraqi civilians killed by US Marines in the 2005 Haditha massacre, Haditha, Iraq, 2011.

Our Hypocrisy on War Crimes

The US’s history of evasiveness around wartime atrocities undermines the very institution that could bring Putin to justice: the International Criminal Court.
by Fintan O’Toole via New York Review of Books on May 5, 2022
Deborah Lipstadt at her Senate nomination hearing.

Deborah Lipstadt vs. “The Oldest Hatred”

In her new role as antisemitism envoy, Deborah Lipstadt will attempt to fight a scourge of antisemitism that she seems to regard as incurable.
by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on April 28, 2022
Collage of a contemporary man encircled by layers of an old map, looking at 19th-century men walking past him.

Those Who Know

On Raoul Peck's "Exterminate all the Brutes" and the limits of rewriting the narrative.
by Nick Martin via The Drift on January 27, 2022
Occupation of Alcatraz; sign reads "Indians Welcome"

The Past and Future of Native California

A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via The Nation on January 24, 2022
Antiquated image of two Indigenous people, against the backdrop of a settlement.

What Slavery Looked Like in the West

Tens of thousands of Indigenous people labored in bondage across the western United States in the 1800s.
by Kevin Waite via The Atlantic on November 25, 2021

New England Once Hunted and Killed Humans for Money. We’re Descendants of the Survivors

The settlers who are mythologized at Thanksgiving as peace-loving Pilgrims were offering cash for Native American heads less than a generation later.
by Dawn Neptune Adams, Maulian Dana, Adam Mazo via The Guardian on November 15, 2021
A man standing infront of a police line

The ‘Global Policeman’ Is Not Exempt From Justice

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.
by David Helps via Foreign Policy on August 13, 2021
Vice president Harris and the Guatemalan president
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Past U.S. Policies Have Made Life Worse for Guatemalans

If the Biden administration wants to address migration, it must recognize U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s problems.
by Catherine Nolan-Ferrell via Made By History on June 21, 2021

The Pantomime Drama of Victims and Villains Conceals the Real Horrors of War

Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.
by Dirk Moses via Aeon on May 10, 2021
1886 British Empire Map

Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.
by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 16, 2021
Artistic rendition of a boy with an explosion.

Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
by James Robins via The New Republic on February 16, 2021
Artwork depicting the Trail of Tears.

Was Indian Removal Genocidal?

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Panorama on August 4, 2020

The Empire of All Maladies

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.
by Nick Estes via The Baffler on July 6, 2020

The Murderous Legacy of Cold War Anticommunism

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.
by Stuart Schrader via Boston Review on May 17, 2020

The Real Story of the 49ers

The reality of the early gold-rush prospectors was not nearly as benevolent as the mascot’s wide smile may suggest.
by Bruce Barcott via The Atlantic on February 2, 2020

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on January 20, 2020

The Great Fear of 1776

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.
by Jeffrey Ostler via Age of Revolutions on September 23, 2019
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How the Kikotan Massacre Prepared the Ground for the Arrival of the First Africans in 1619

America was built by the labor of stolen African bodies, on stolen Native American lands.
by Gregory D. Smithers via HNN on September 15, 2019

When The President Laughs At Genocide

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.
by Michael E. Carter via Tropics of Meta on February 10, 2019
Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address.

American Uses and Misuses of the Holocaust

Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.
by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on February 8, 2019

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.
by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on January 3, 2019

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on April 25, 2018
Delegation of African officials confront archival boxes and human skulls.

The Troubling Origins of the Skeletons in a New York Museum

The effort to repatriate the remains of thousands of Herero people slaughtered by German colonists at the turn of the century.
by Daniel A. Gross via The New Yorker on January 24, 2018
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Republic on December 11, 2017
Indian bicycle troops at the battle of the Somme in 1916.

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.
by Pankaj Mishra via The Guardian on November 10, 2017

Confronting the Legacy of the Civil War: The Forgotten Front

One thing united the warring factions of the civil war: the doctrine of white supremacy and violence against Indians.
by George Black via The Nation on October 26, 2017

History is Not There to be Liked: On Historical Memory, Real and Fake

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.
by Jason Steinhauer via Foreign Policy Research Institute on September 15, 2017
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