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The Man Who Became Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name.
by
Clint Smith
via
The Atlantic
on
September 8, 2023
How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.
When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.
by
Elise A. Mitchell
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Slate
on
September 4, 2023
The Roots of Christian Nationalism Go Back Further Than You Think
To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.
by
Robert P. Jones
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TIME
on
August 31, 2023
Nolan’s Oppenheimer Treats New Mexico as a Blank Canvas
There is no acknowledgement in the film of the existence of downwinders from the test, in New Mexico or elsewhere.
by
Kelsey D. Atherton
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Source New Mexico
on
July 28, 2023
We Must Not Forget What Happened to the World’s Indigenous Children
Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard.
by
Steve Minton
via
Aeon
on
July 21, 2023
An Indianapolis Archivist’s Curiosity Revives Historical Truths
A Black cemetery by the site of the former Greenlawn Cemetery in Indianapolis is now a point of contention as the city plans to develop the area.
by
Mary Lee Pappas
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Arts Midwest
on
June 29, 2023
Asians In Early America
Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru.
by
Diego Javier Luis
via
Aeon
on
June 13, 2023
Nostalgia's Empire
We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.
by
Grafton Tanner
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Johny Pitts
via
Public Books
on
June 8, 2023
The Untold Story of the Zoot Suit Riots: How Black L.A. Defended Mexican Americans
The unity of two long-neglected communities during trying times is a reminder of what we desperately need in Los Angeles.
by
Gustavo Arellano
via
Los Angeles Times
on
June 2, 2023
Reclaiming Native Identity in California
The genocide of Native Americans was nowhere more methodically savage than in California. A new state initiative seeks to reckon with this history.
by
Ed Vulliamy
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 1, 2023
Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History
It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.
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Ned Blackhawk
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TIME
on
April 26, 2023
Staten Island, Forgotten Borough
Staten Island gets a lot of disrespect from other New Yorkers, some of it fair. But it has its own fascinating people’s history.
by
James Bosco
via
Current Affairs
on
April 3, 2023
The Parsonage
An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.
by
David Hajdu
via
Places Journal
on
April 1, 2023
Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy
The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.
by
Stephen Wertheim
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Foreign Affairs
on
March 17, 2023
Florida’s Stop Woke Act is Latest in a Long History of Censoring Black Scholarship
America has been declaring war on Black education since this country’s beginnings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Stop Woke Act seeks to continue this tradition.
by
Darryl Robertson
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Andscape
on
February 23, 2023
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Conservatives Want To Control What Kids Learn, But It May Backfire
Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.
by
Adam Laats
via
Made By History
on
February 7, 2023
partner
The Fight for Accurate Western History is about Inclusion Today
Distortions in Western history have long obscured the region’s Black communities.
by
Anthony W. Wood
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Made By History
on
February 2, 2023
How Some Enslaved Black People Found Freedom in Southern Slaveholding States
Instead of using the Underground Railroad as a route north, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to communities in the South.
by
Viola Franziska Müller
via
The Conversation
on
January 24, 2023
Mythmaking In Manhattan
Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.
by
Benjamin L. Carp
via
Age of Revolutions
on
December 5, 2022
Whose Nation? Reconsidering Abortion as an American Tradition
Although originalists fail to see it, abortion has had a long and storied history for American women.
by
Brooke Lansing
via
The Panorama
on
October 31, 2022
A Bare and Open Truth: The Penn and Slavery Project and the Public
When a university denied its legacy, students and faculty stepped in to do the research.
by
VanJessica Gladney
via
Perspectives on History
on
October 19, 2022
The Enduring Power of “Scenes of Subjection”
Saidiya Hartman’s unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom in the United States first appeared in 1997 and has lost none of its relevance.
by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
via
The New Yorker
on
October 17, 2022
Trouble in River City
Two recent books examine the idea of the Midwest as a haven for white supremacy and patriarchy.
by
Caroline Fraser
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 29, 2022
Destructive Myths
Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.
by
Jeff Faux
via
Dissent
on
August 30, 2022
What The 1836 Project Leaves Out in Its Version of Texas History
The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.
by
Michael Phillips
,
Leah LaGrone
via
Texas Monthly
on
August 25, 2022
Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?
Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.
by
Joshua Zeitz
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Scott Althaus
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Matt Cleary
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Ryan McMaken
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 19, 2022
The Mexican Revolution as U.S. History
Making the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.
by
Jonna Perrillo
via
Boston Review
on
August 4, 2022
The Real Meaning of Texas Ranger Monuments
In recent years, Seguin has honored the Texas Rangers with memorials. My father agreed to build one—but then started having second thoughts.
by
Gabriel Daniel Solis
via
Texas Monthly
on
July 21, 2022
What People Get Wrong About the History of Bisexuality
Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it .
by
Julia Shaw
via
TIME
on
June 23, 2022
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Native Trails
Ed Ayers travels back to his childhood stomping grounds in search of traces of the dispossession that took place there generations earlier.
by
Ed Ayers
on
June 13, 2022
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