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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

The History of History

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

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

The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."

by Benjamin Breen on April 12, 2018

Real Museums of Memphis

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.

by Zandria Felice Robinson via Scalawag on April 12, 2018

Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?

As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.

by Elizabeth Merritt via American Alliance of Museums on April 3, 2018

Striking miners

A Culture of Resistance

The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.

by Chuck Keeney via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 30, 2018

Exit Through the Gift Shop

How do museum gift shops at Civil War sites shape historical memory?

by Nick Sacco via Muster on March 13, 2018

The History Department Bracket Is Here and It Has Tenure

There isn’t much turnover with these selections.

by Russ Oates via SBNation.com on March 13, 2018

Ed Ayers next to the cover of his book, "The Thin Light of Freedom."

The Thin Light of Freedom

On this episode of BackStory, Brian sits down with Ed to talk about a project of his that’s been twenty-five years in the making.

via BackStory on November 17, 2017

Beginnning of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.

The Decision to Secede and Establish the Confederacy

A selection of primary sources compiled by the American Historical Association.

via American Historical Association on November 1, 2017

Trump is the New _______

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 24, 2017

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