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Man cheering at a political rally while wearing a Trump sticker on his cheesehead hat.

'Tribalism’ Doesn’t Explain Our Political Conflicts

We should look to history – not prehistory – to understand current political challenges.
by Adam Rothman via Washington Post on November 14, 2018

Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?

What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present.
by Claire Bond Potter via Public Seminar on October 17, 2018

Catching Up to Pauli Murray

From today's vantage, the remarkable achievements of the writer and social justice activist are finally coming into focus.
by Drew Gilpin Faust via New York Review of Books on October 5, 2018

Here Is a Human Being

The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are.
by Cam Scott via Popula on September 27, 2018
Title page of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."
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Anonymous Criticism Helped Make America Great

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on September 8, 2018

Making Philly a Blue-Collar City

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.
by Timothy Lombardo via Sport in American History on September 6, 2018
Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on September 3, 2018

Southerners Tore Down Silent Sam. Now Northerners Need to Tear Down Confederate Flags.

Each one flown outside the slave states amounts to an admission that the flag represents whiteness, not Southernness.
by Alex Pareene via HuffPost on August 29, 2018

Tattooing in the Civil War Was a Hedge Against Anonymous Death

Hidden tattoos captured soldiers' pride and patriotism, but also had a practical use.
by Aïda Amer, Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on August 13, 2018

As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation

History haunts, but Alabama changes.
by Imani Perry via Harper’s on July 15, 2018

When California Was the Bear Republic

The story behind the iconic flag.
by Benjamin Breen via Res Obscura on July 15, 2018

The Counterfeit Queen of Soul

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.
by Jeff Maysh via Smithsonian on June 28, 2018
Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 2018

She Dared to Be Herself: Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy

She is remembered for being a "first," but it was her integrity, courageousness, and conviction that made her an icon.
by Shannon Wright, Whit Taylor via The Nib on June 18, 2018

How Birth Certificates Are Being Weaponized Against Trans People

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on June 8, 2018
Mural painting of people on a subway.

The Muralist and Enumerator

How a census taker and an artist were participants to the grand project of displaying and explaining America to itself.
by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on June 2, 2018

Inked Irishmen

Irish tattoos in 1860s New York.
by Damian Shiels via Irish in the American Civil War on May 23, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018
Stamped passport.

The New Passport-Poor

Travel documentation was created to restrict – and it may become even more entrapping in the future.
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian via New York Review of Books on May 21, 2018

Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 15, 2018

Myths & Misunderstandings

Understanding the complex history of the Confederate flag.
by John M. Coski via The American Civil War Museum on April 25, 2018

Why We Doubt Capable Children

How we inherited our modern understanding of childhood from the 18th-century revolutionary era.
by Julia M. Gossard via The Junto on April 17, 2018
Still of Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez from The Breakfast Club.

What About “The Breakfast Club”?

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.
by Molly Ringwald via The New Yorker on April 6, 2018

The Ambivalence of Appropriation

A new book by Eric Lott frames white appropriation of blackness as containing the possibility of greater racial solidarity.
by Noah Hansen via Public Books on March 29, 2018
Dolores Huerta receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.

Pioneering Labor Activist Dolores Huerta

Huerta was far more than an assistant of Cesar Chavez, leader of United Farm Workers, and she risked her life for her activism.
by Dolores Huerta, Lily Rothman via TIME on March 27, 2018

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

Thanks to federal immigration policies, immigration from Ireland has all but dried up.
by Sadhbh Walshe via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2018
Irish immigrants at Ellis Island.

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

Changes to US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.
by Sadhbh Walshe via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2018

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018

A New Struggle Coming

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on March 5, 2018

What Makes Jewish Comedy Jewish?

In the latter half of the twentieth century, American comedy just was Jewish comedy, tamped down to appease audiences.
by David Baddiel via The Times Literary Supplement on February 28, 2018
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