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Tawk of the Town

A review of "You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English."

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.
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The Sting of ‘Thank You for Your Service’

The benefits that come with serving the country have withered in recent decades.

After Reparations

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.
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College Costs

Historical perspectives on the money that fuels American higher education, and Americans’ attempts to reckon with the power dynamics that result.

Editorial Visions

When editors believed their magazines could change lives.

History Won’t Save Us

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.
Print of a mission church and cemetery.

How Philanthropy Helped History Go Public

What began as an attempt to find more job opportunities for historians went further and launched a new field.

The Unhealed Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.
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Did Lincoln Really Matter?

What the Civil War tells us about who has the power to shape history.
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Paul Samuelson Brought Mathematical Economics to the Masses

Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name.
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White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.

Historians Write About a Different Jefferson Now: Four Books Show How Different

Four new books show how different, and maybe also why.
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When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas

Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis.
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Paying for the Past: Reparations and American History

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.

Pessimism and Primary Sources in the Survey

The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.
Calvin Coolidge receiving statue of boy scout.

A Young Appreciation of the Old Right

Calvin Coolidge and others are bringing together student libertarians and trads, but that doesn't make for a coherent coalition.

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.
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Why My Students Don’t Call Themselves ‘Southern’ Writers

On reckoning with a fraught literary history.
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The Faces of Racism

A history of blackface and minstrelsy in American culture.

America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

The First Female MIT Student Started an All-Women Chemistry Lab

Ellen Swallow Richards applied chemistry to the home to advocate for consumer safety and women's education.
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What We Get Wrong About Affirmative Action

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.

'We Dissent' and the Making of Feminist Memory

Understanding the politics behind Cooper Union's 'We Dissent' exhibition.

Teaching the Rank and File

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.
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Obituary for a Billion-Dollar Boondoggle

Nearly two decades ago, historians embraced a hugely wasteful federal education program. It’s past time to reckon with that.
Football players kneeling in prayer on the field.

Football and the Political Act of Prayer

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.
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Podcasting the Past

Why historians should stop worrying and embrace the rise of history podcasts by non-scholars.

Reassessing Woodrow Wilson, the Crusader President

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.

At Gilded Age “Poverty Parties,” the Rich Felt Free

This bad old tradition isn’t quite dead.

The History Department Bracket Is Here and It Has Tenure

There isn’t much turnover with these selections.

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