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Home Front: Black Women Unionists in the Confederacy
The resistance and unionism of enslaved and freed Black women in the midst of the Confederacy is an epic story of sacrifice for nation and citizenship.
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Thavolia Glymph
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Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
February 4, 2024
The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money
Economists and historians have been telling us the wrong story about Continental currency for two centuries.
by
Gabriel Neville
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Journal of the American Revolution
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January 29, 2024
How the 1619 Project Distorted History
The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.
by
James Oakes
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Jacobin
on
December 27, 2023
On the New Book, "Hillbilly Highway"
Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.
by
Max Fraser
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Joseph Rathke
via
LaborOnline
on
December 15, 2023
Exhibit
The History of History
How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.
Writing Under Fire
For a full understanding of any historical period, we must read the literature written while its events were still unfolding.
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Nathaniel Rich
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New York Review of Books
on
November 30, 2023
How John F. Kennedy Fell for the Lost Cause
And the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it.
by
Jordan Virtue
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The Atlantic
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November 13, 2023
Who Is History For?
What happens when radical historians write for the public.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
July 25, 2023
Howard Zinn and the Politics of Popular History
The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.
by
Nick Witham
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
July 17, 2023
Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years.
The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.
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Joseph Stieb
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Texas National Security Review
on
June 6, 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
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New York Review of Books
on
June 1, 2023
1619 Rightly Understood
David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African influence on American national ideals.
by
Wilfred M. McClay
via
First Things
on
May 13, 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
Ned Blackhawk Wants to Unmake the U.S. Origin Story
Professor Blackhawk’s new volume attempts to put Native peoples’ stories at the center of the history of the United States.
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Ned Blackhawk
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Rhoda Feng
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Mother Jones
on
April 24, 2023
*The South*: The Past, Historicity, and Black American History (Part II)
Exploring recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres.
by
Adolph Reed Jr.
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
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April 10, 2023
‘Birchers,’ a Well-Told, Familiar Entry in the ‘How We Got to Trump’ Genre
In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”
by
Sam Adler-Bell
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Washington Post
on
March 22, 2023
A Known and Unknown War
Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
by
Michael Brenes
via
Contingent
on
March 20, 2023
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The Nixon Library's Vietnam Exhibition Obscures the Truth About the War's End
The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.
by
Brian Robertson
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HNN
on
March 19, 2023
Everything We Know about the History of Diversity Is Wrong
And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.
by
Charles Petersen
via
Making History
on
March 19, 2023
Inventing American Constitutionalism
On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.
by
Gordon S. Wood
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Brian A. Smith
via
Law & Liberty
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March 10, 2023
1910s Cannabis Discourse and Prohibition
Does marijuana prohibition have racist origins? Where did ideas of “reefer madness” come from? This project looks to the historical record for answers.
by
Isaac Campos
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The Drug Page
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March 7, 2023
Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left
Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
via
Jacobin
on
February 20, 2023
David Grim’s Fairy Tale: The New York City Fire In Myth
We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.
by
Benjamin L. Carp
via
The Gotham Center
on
February 15, 2023
The Blindness of Colorblindness
Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.
by
Ira Katznelson
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Boston Review
on
February 6, 2023
When Perry Miller Invented America
In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.
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Ed Simon
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
February 5, 2023
The Long American Counter-Revolution
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
December 8, 2022
What AHA President James Sweet Got Wrong—And Right
Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.
by
Jonathan W. Wilson
via
Clio and the Contemporary
on
November 30, 2022
Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward?
They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.
by
David Treuer
via
The New Yorker
on
November 7, 2022
On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences
Enslaved women’s experiences with war must be extended to include the everyday warfare of slavery.
by
Karen Cook Bell
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 7, 2022
What Is There To Celebrate?
A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."
by
Eric Foner
via
London Review of Books
on
October 20, 2022
Contest or Conquest?
How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
Harper’s
on
October 11, 2022
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