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The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-nominated "Tacky’s Revolt."
by Vincent Brown via Literary Hub on October 14, 2020

How the 1619 Project Took Over 2020

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.
by Sarah Ellison via Washington Post on October 13, 2020
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Pointing a Way Forward

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.
by Jessica Wilkerson via Southern Cultures on October 1, 2020

Re-watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests

The landmark Ken Burns documentary hasn’t aged well. But it continues to shape American perceptions about the Confederacy and slavery.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 26, 2020
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The History of History

How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.
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Revisionist History is an American Political Tradition

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.
by Michael D. Hattem via Made By History on September 23, 2020

Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

Jon Sternfeld on collective memory and history as instruction.
by Jon Sternfeld via Literary Hub on September 22, 2020
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The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World

How scientific thought informed colonization and religious conversion during the Age of Discovery.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Not Even Past on September 22, 2020

‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.
by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020
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Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020
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Trump’s Vision for American History Education Is a Nightmare

But it’s one historians know all too well.
by L. D. Burnett via Slate on September 18, 2020
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The Mystery of Robert E. Lee

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on September 17, 2020
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What Smells Can Teach Us About History

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted.
by Shayla Love via Vice on September 16, 2020
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The Last Pandemic

Using history to guide us in the difficult present.
by E. Thomas Ewing via Humanities on August 16, 2020

How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 11, 2020
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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

On the Uses of History for Staying Alive

Reflections on reading Nietzsche in Alaska in the early days of Covid-19.
by Bathsheba Demuth via The Point on July 12, 2020

How Is a Disaster Made?

Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
by Andy Horowitz via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 7, 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
Billboard for "Gateway to the Canyons" featuring a painting of Plains Indians meeting Spanish Catholic monks.

The Black Legend Lives

A review of "Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest."
by Jeremy Beer via Commonweal on July 1, 2020
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Last Pole

The author goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.
by Julian Chehirian via The Public Domain Review on May 27, 2020

History in a Crisis - Lessons for Covid-19

The history of epidemics offers considerable advice, but only if people know the history and respond with wisdom.
by David S. Jones via The New England Journal Of Medicine on March 12, 2020
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Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t.
by Andrew Ferguson via The Atlantic on February 15, 2020

The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.
by Joseph M. Adelman via The Junto on January 23, 2020

The Long War Against Slavery

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020

How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.
by Abram C. Van Engen via Humanities on January 2, 2020

Putting Women Back Where They Belong: In Federalism and the U.S. History Survey

Looking to the local level showcases how women claimed their rights in Early America.
by Laura F. Edwards via Muster on December 27, 2019

The Contagious Revolution

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.
by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on December 19, 2019

Making Impeachment Matter

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.
by Alex Pareene via The New Republic on November 21, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 29, 2019
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