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Thomas Jefferson and Us
The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?
by
David Sehat
via
William and Mary Quarterly
on
October 1, 2017
partner
How New York Became the Capital of the Jim Crow North
Racial injustice is not a regional sickness. It's a national cancer.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Brian Purnell
via
Made By History
on
August 23, 2017
100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter
Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."
by
Chad Williams
via
The Conversation
on
July 25, 2017
Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.
An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Richard Kreitner
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Peter S. Onuf
via
Boston Review
on
May 19, 2016
"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
How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration
Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing—until a 32-year-old changed his mind.
by
Jason Sokol
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 4, 2015
A Rare Interview with Malcolm X
On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.
by
Eleanor Fischer
,
Stephen Nessen
via
WNYC
on
February 4, 2015
partner
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech is widely known as one of the greatest abolitionist speeches ever.
via
BackStory
on
July 7, 2014
Two Generals Contest the Definition of Cruelty
Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.
by
William Tecumseh Sherman
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John B. Hood
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 14, 1864
‘The LORD Told Me It’s Flat None of Your Business’: Jimmy Swaggart’s Scandalous Legacy
Jimmy Swaggart utilized his charisma to overcome not one, but two sex scandals.
by
Suzanna Krivulskaya
via
Religion Dispatches
on
July 2, 2025
5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
via
The Nation
on
June 19, 2025
The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump
The political vision that William F. Buckley helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.
by
Jack McCordick
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The New Republic
on
June 3, 2025
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Christy Thornton and Greg Grandin discuss his new book, “America, América,” and the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America.
by
Greg Grandin
,
Christy Thornton
via
The Baffler
on
May 30, 2025
How Trump Wants to Change History
Late last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to restore “truth and sanity to American history.”
by
Adam Rowe
via
Compact
on
April 24, 2025
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How to Succeed in Government Without Really Trying
The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government.
by
Camille Walsh
via
HNN
on
April 23, 2025
The Sins and Sayings of E.W. Howe
A deeply skeptical, deeply American mind and its trail of sharp, clean sentences.
by
Steve Szilagyi
via
3 Quarks Daily
on
April 11, 2025
The Dark, McCarthyist History of Deporting Activists
Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.
by
Michelle Chen
via
The Progressive
on
March 21, 2025
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
by
Mari Cohen
via
Jewish Currents
on
December 19, 2024
The Power Broker: Roy Cohn on Screen
The closeted right-wing operative has become a tragic character in the American repertory.
by
Mark Asch
via
Mubi
on
December 5, 2024
partner
Letting the World Scream
The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.
by
Sean T. Byrnes
via
HNN
on
November 26, 2024
partner
Even George Washington Was a Tyrant
We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.
by
Karin Wulf
via
Made By History
on
November 18, 2024
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”
Margaret Fuller and the first major work of American feminism.
by
Randall Fuller
via
The Public Domain Review
on
October 29, 2024
American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
by
Paul Crider
via
Liberal Currents
on
October 2, 2024
The Hypocrisies of International Justice
A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial.
by
Colin Jones
via
The Nation
on
September 18, 2024
Not “Three-Fifths of a Person”
What the three-fifths clause meant at ratification.
by
Nathaniel C. Green
via
Commonplace
on
September 10, 2024
Kamala Harris’s “Freedom” Campaign
Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.
by
Peter Slevin
via
The New Yorker
on
August 23, 2024
What Freedom Meant to the Black Soldier Who Rowed Across the Delaware
The enslaved Prince Whipple acutely felt the contradiction between American ideals and his condition.
by
Timothy Messer-Kruse
via
Commonplace
on
August 6, 2024
Black Freedom and Indian Independence
Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Andrea M. Slater
via
JSTOR Daily
on
July 5, 2024
Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws
Samuel Roth was the sort of bookseller whose wares came wrapped in brown paper.
by
Ed Simon
via
Literary Hub
on
July 3, 2024
partner
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age?
by
Sohini Desai
via
HNN
on
July 2, 2024
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