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Cover of "These Truths"

New Yorker Nation

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.
by Richard White via Reviews In American History on June 2, 2019
Painting by Titus Kaphar entitled "Page 4 of Jefferson’s ‘Farm Book"

How Proslavery Was the Constitution?

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2019

The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
by Timothy Shenk via The Nation on May 20, 2019

Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on May 20, 2019
Exhibit

The History of History

How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.

Muslims of Early America

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 20, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.
by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on May 16, 2019
The Interface Message Processor that connected UCLA to ARPANET.

Communication Revolution

ARPANET and the development of the internet, 50 years later.
by Zoë Jackson via Perspectives on History on May 14, 2019

Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.
by Corey Robin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019
Internet Archive servers.

Data Overload

How will the historians of the future manage the massive archival data our society has begun to compile on the internet?
by Seth Denbo via Perspectives on History on May 7, 2019

We Hold These Ideas to Be Self-Evident

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.
by Michael Kimmage via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 29, 2019

The (Historical) Body in Pain

How can we understand the physical pain of others?
by Cassia Roth via Nursing Clio on April 9, 2019

Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.
by Destin Jenkins, Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on April 2, 2019
Francis Fukuyama

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?
by Maximillian Alvarez via Boston Review on March 22, 2019
A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.
by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on March 11, 2019

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.
by Lynne Feeley via The Nation on February 26, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."
by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019
American Indian woman and children.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.
by Christine DeLucia via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 10, 2019

Best American History Reads of 2018

Bunk's editor shares some of his favorite pieces from the year.
by Tony Field via Medium on January 8, 2019

What Does History Smell Like?

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.
by Mark S. R. Jenner, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 28, 2018

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.
by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018
Jill Lepore

'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018
Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018
Stack of biographies.

Arguing Biography

An university press editor considers the merits and limitations of biography as a scholarly form.
by Michael J. McGandy via Uncommon Sense on October 23, 2018

History for a Post-Fact America

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on October 19, 2018
Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.
by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018
Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

Beyond People’s History

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”
by Samantha Schuyler via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 29, 2018
Collage of children in school and historic and patriotic images.

Amid the Online Glut of Facts and Fake News, We’re Teaching History Wrong

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.
by Rebecca Onion, Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 18, 2018
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