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Douglas Engelbart wearing an earpiece, sitting at a computer, in 1968.

The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.
by Andy Horowitz via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 8, 2018

What Thucydides Knew About the US Today

His accounts of polarization in ancient Athens are as relevant today they were thousands of years ago.
by Edward Mendelson via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2018

Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.
by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Edge Effects on October 23, 2018

Welcome to New York

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
by Brendan P. O'Malley via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 12, 2018

Bang for the Buck

Three new books paint a more nuanced portrait of the American militias whose gun rights have been protected since the founding.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2018
Painting depicting the sinking of the Monmouth, which was carrying Muscogee people to Oklahoma.

The Removal Act

The phrase "trail of tears" resonates in American conversation because the country is still coming to terms with what happened and what it means.
via National Museum Of The American Indian on February 19, 2018

Remember the Orangeburg Massacre

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.
by Robert Greene II via Dissent on February 7, 2018

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017
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The North Tried Compromise. The South Chose War.

The South's insistence upon protecting and spreading slavery caused the Civil War.
by Carole Emberton via Made By History on November 1, 2017

The Big Picture: The Right Type of Citizenship

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?
by Jefferson Cowie via Public Books on October 31, 2017

How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.
by Coleman Lowndes via Vox on October 25, 2017

Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State

The real history of the Second Amendment.
by Saul Cornell via The Baffler on October 3, 2017
Picture of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the film, "Dirty Dancing."

The Back-Alley Abortion That Almost Didn't Make it into 'Dirty Dancing'

For the 30th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing," we spoke to the film's screenwriter about her revolutionary decision to include a depiction of an illegal abortion.
by Marisa Crawford, Eleanor Bergstein via Vice on August 27, 2017
Demonstrators hold signs arguing to "Save Sacco & Vanzetti"

Is There a Place in Public History for Sacco and Vanzetti?

Ninety years after the duo was executed, there are virtually no physical markers in Boston commemorating them.
by Stephanie E. Yuhl, Peter Feuerherd via JSTOR Daily on August 23, 2017

When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers

The ugly roots of the "school choice" movement.
by Leo Casey via Dissent on August 9, 2017

The Real History of American Immigration

Trump's break with tradition may be good or bad, but it's definitely different.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on August 6, 2017
Confederate Commander Col. Lawrence Allen and his wife.

The Massacre Men

The Confederacy often used brutal tactics against Union sympathizers, even in Southern towns.
by David Forbes via Scalawag on July 27, 2017
Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Historians Against Slavery on March 17, 2017

An Appeal for Grace

The white historian’s responsibility to radical empathy and refuting the “invented past”.
by Caroline Grego via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 22, 2017

Native Land Digital

Do you live on Native American territory?
via Native Land Digital on January 1, 2017
Jim Jones in 1977

Drinking the Kool-Aid at Jonestown

Did you drink the Kool-Aid? The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.
by Rebecca Moore, Peter Feuerherd, David Chidester, James T. Richardson via JSTOR Daily on November 11, 2016

America’s Lost History of Border Violence

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 5, 2016
A painting of Boston harbor, where women in dresses stand on a hill, watching ships
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Invisible Cities, Continued

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."
via BackStory on January 22, 2016

Modern Segregation

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.
by Richard Rothstein via Economic Policy Institute on March 6, 2014

The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic

Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio program did not touch off nationwide hysteria. Why does the legend persist?
by Michael J. Socolow, Jefferson Pooley via Slate on October 28, 2013
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Fierce Urgency of Now

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.
via BackStory on August 23, 2013
Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy.

Died on the 4th of July

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”
by Stephen B. Tippins via The American Conservative on July 3, 2012
Charles Henry Turner with spiders, butterflies, and various insects in the background

Charles Henry Turner’s Insights Into Animal Behavior Were a Century Ahead of Their Time

Researchers are rediscovering the forgotten legacy of a pioneering Black scientist who conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of animals.
by Alla Katsnelson via Knowable Magazine

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