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Why We’ll Never Stop Arguing About Hamilton

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

by Aja Romano via Vox on July 3, 2020

Two statues next to each other

Confederates in the Capitol

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.

by William Hogeland via Boston Review on June 29, 2020

Photograph of a teacher standing in an historic cemetery.

Slavery Existed in Illinois, but Schools Don’t Always Teach That History

An Illinois high school teacher explains how his state complicates the binary of “free states” and “slave states.”

by Logan Jaffe, Darrel Dexter via ProPublica on June 19, 2020

Drawing of four red fists intersecting the U.S. Capitol building

The Rebirth of Red Power

The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.

by Nick Martin via The New Republic on June 1, 2020

The History of History

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

Comedy troupe on stage.

Finding the Funny

Historians’ lectures provide material for improv comedians.

by Laura Ansley via Perspectives on History on May 13, 2020

On Ancestry

A scholar of the history of race sets out on an exploration of his own family roots, and despite his better judgement, is moved by what he discovers.

by Justin E. H. Smith via jehsmith.com on May 6, 2020

Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776

The United States didn't begin in 1619.

by Wilfred Reilly via Quillette on February 17, 2020

Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post on February 7, 2020

1619 and All That

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

by Alex Lichtenstein via American Historical Review on February 3, 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 Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.

by Liesl Schillinger via Literary Hub on November 8, 2019

Whiteout

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.

by Kevin Baker via Harper’s on November 1, 2019

Video Games Can Bring Older Family Members' Personal History Back to Life

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.

by Bob De Schutter via The Conversation on September 18, 2019

Japanese-Americans farming in Manzanar

A Grave Injustice

Ed Ayers visits Manzanar, the largest of the WWII-era internment camps for Japanese Americans, and speaks to those keeping the memories of detainees alive.

via Future Of America's Past on August 15, 2019

Athlete-Activists Before and After Kaepernick

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.

by Louis Moore, Jules Boykoff via Public Books on May 14, 2019

The Author of a New Book About Andrew Johnson on the Right Reasons to Impeach a President

Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.

by Brenda Wineapple, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 8, 2019

Inside an Annual Gathering of Abraham Lincoln Impersonators

There were 22 Abrahams at the event, which began in 1990.

by Benjamin Norman via TIME on April 16, 2019

Painting depicting Jamestown Fort under construction.

Learning from Jamestown

The violent catastrophe of the Virginia colonists is the best founding parable of American history.

by Brianna Rennix via Current Affairs on March 15, 2019

The Alamo Is a Rupture

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

by Raúl A. Ramos via Guernica on February 19, 2019

Poster for minstrelsy cake walk

The Faces of Racism

A history of blackface and minstrelsy in American culture.

via BackStory on February 8, 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

Payback

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

by Natalie Y. Moore via The Marshall Project on October 30, 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

Railway strike of 1886.

Why Strikes Matter

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.

by Erik Loomis via Literary Hub on October 3, 2018

The Healing Buzz of "Drunk History"

Sweet, filthy, and forgiving, it’s a corrective to the authoritative, we-know-better tone of most historical nonfiction.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 16, 2018

An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. in 1957.

Common Core Is a Menace to Pluralism and Democracy

But can locally empowered communities really fix our schools' problems?

by Johann N. Neem via The American Conservative on June 19, 2018

America’s First Female Mapmaker

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.

by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 18, 2018

The Liberal Delusion of #ResistanceGenealogy

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 15, 2018

What Happens When We Forget?

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.

by Lance Warren via Facing South on May 7, 2018

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