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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

The History of History

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

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

How Theaters and TV Networks are Changing the Way They Show Gone With the Wind

After almost 80 years, America is finally rethinking how it screens its favorite movie.

by Aisha Harris via Slate on October 22, 2017

Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.

by Lance Warren via Longreads on October 13, 2017

Court room 63 members of the all-black 24th Infantry are seated to be tried for mutiny and murder in Houston, 1917.

Vandals Damage Historical Marker Commemorating 1917 Uprising by Black Soldiers

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on September 8, 2017

What Time Capsules, Meant for Future Americans, Say About How We See Ourselves Today

We used to fill our time capsules with fancy stuff. Now we put in junk.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 8, 2017

Demonstrators protesting new history curriculum

How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

by Andrew Hartman via Made By History on September 5, 2017

Ken Burns's American Canon

Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in.

by Ian Parker via The New Yorker on September 4, 2017

Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate Monument

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.

by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on August 30, 2017

A Continental soldier in the Revolutionary War holding a tattered American flag and standing on chains.

We Could Have Been Canada

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on May 8, 2017

Donald Trump Bullsh*ts His Way Through Civil War History

"Why could that one not have been worked out?"

via Funny Or Die on May 1, 2017

The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.

by Robert Lee via Slate on March 1, 2017

Trump Syllabus 2.0

An introduction to the currents of American culture that led to "Trumpism.'

by Keisha N. Blain, N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 28, 2016

The History of National Women's History Month

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.

by Julia Zorthian via TIME on February 29, 2016

Protestors walking with pro-integration posters

"Jim Crow Must Go"

Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation – and it barely made the history books.

by Matt Delmont via Salon on February 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School

How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on January 26, 2016

Modern Segregation

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.

by Richard Rothstein via Economic Policy Institute on March 6, 2014

Civil War reenactors.

Telling the Untold Story 1

Why Marvin Greer spends his weekends playing the part of a slave at Civil War reenactments.

via BackStory on March 1, 2013

Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem With Popularization

Making history more appealing to the public may come at a cost.

by Kathryn Lofton via Religion Dispatches on June 17, 2009

The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.

by Jeremy Bangs via HNN on September 1, 2005

Cover of Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn's History Lessons

"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.

by Michael Kazin via Dissent on April 3, 2004

Cover of "Making Whiteness," featuring a Black man in front of a billboard of larger-than-life white faces.

Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.

by In Black America via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 1, 1998

Alcatraz Island prison sign painted over to welcome Indians to Indian land.

The Art of Stealing Human Rights

Native peoples face similar struggles with the federal governments in the U.S. and in Canada.

by Radio Free Alcatraz via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1970

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