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Why A New Law Requiring Asian American History In Schools Is So Significant

"By not showing up in American history, by not hearing about Asian Americans in schools, that contributes to that sense of foreignness."
by Li Zhou via Vox on July 20, 2021
Inscription on Gullah-Geechee gravestone

Hilton Head Island— Haunted by Its Own History

Historical traces of racism and exclusion remain on the island. It’s just that new residents can’t—or won’t—read them.
by Alexa Hazel via Public Books on July 20, 2021
Image interference of Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

3 Tropes of White Victimhood

Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via The Atlantic on July 20, 2021
Margaret Watson, 93, touches a section of the Birwood Wall that runs behind her house

Built to Keep Black From White

Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That's not an accident.
by Erin Einhorn, Olivia Lewis via NBC News on July 19, 2021
Exhibit

“All Persons Born or Naturalized in the United States...”

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.
Cover of TIME magazine featuring a redacted textbook and the title "The History Wars"

Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 16, 2021
Facade at the Alamo

'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?

What’s new about the controversy over the Alamo’s history, and how the way Texans tell its story relates to how Americans see each other.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 13, 2021
A supporter of US President Donald Trump holds a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber during a protest after breaching the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. - The demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification.

Jan. 6 Was a "Turning Point" in American History

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.
by Annette Gordon-Reed, Chauncey DeVega via Salon on July 12, 2021
Map of Nova Scotia

Imagining Nova Scotia: The Limits of an Eighteenth-Century Imperial Fantasy

Colonial planners saw Nova Scotia as a blank space ripe for transformation.
by Alexandra L. Montgomery via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 12, 2021
Vice President Harris and Pedro Brolo, Guatemala's minister of foreign affairs, wave at her arrival ceremony in Guatemala City on June 6.
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The Root Cause of Central American Migration? The United States.

The Biden administration risks rehashing decades of failed policy.
by Aviva Chomsky via Made By History on July 8, 2021
A border sign

Borders Don’t Stop Violence—They Create It

The “border” is not a line on the ground, but a tool that enables violence and surveillance.
by Karl Jacoby, Monica Muñoz Martinez via Public Books on July 7, 2021
Benjamin Franklin reading

America’s Obsession With Self-Help

From “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” to “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” what do bestselling guides to self-improvement reveal about the United States?
by Chris Lehmann via The New Republic on July 2, 2021
Illustration of a stick figure on a ladder adding to very tall stacks of paper

Living Memory

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.
by Megan Pillow via Guernica on June 23, 2021
107th U.S. Colored Troops posing for a picture

People, Not “Voices” or “Bodies,” Make History

We need to do far more than “give voice to the voiceless" to win justice.
by Dale Kretz via Jacobin on June 18, 2021
Workers cover a statue of Christopher Columbus in Chicago before the start of a Juneteenth march on June 19, 2020. The memorial was later removed.

When Monuments Go Bad

The Chicago Monuments Project is searching for ways to resolve its landscape of problematic statues and make room for a new, different kind of public memorial.
by Zach Mortice via CityLab on June 8, 2021
They pronouns in multi-colored boxes

Where Gender-Neutral Pronouns Come From

We tend to think of "they," "Mx.," and "hir" as recent inventions. But English speakers have been looking for better ways to talk about gender for a long time.
by Michael Waters via The Atlantic on June 4, 2021
American Girl dolls

The Enduring Nostalgia of American Girl Dolls

The beloved line of fictional characters taught children about American history and encouraged them to realize their potential.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on June 3, 2021
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Biden Will Allow Undocumented Students To Access Pandemic Relief

For decades, policymakers have debated who may access public education and the social safety net.
by Sarah R. Coleman via Made By History on June 1, 2021

It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel

Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.
by Matt Stoller, Sam Haselby via The Chronicle of Higher Education on May 28, 2021
Yuri Kochiyama depicted in a Pop Art style panel of images

1921 Marks Anniversaries of Both American Exclusion and Inclusion

On the 100th anniversary of Yuri Kochiyama’s birth and the passage of the Emergency Quota Act, Railton explores inclusion and exclusion in US history.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on May 19, 2021
Maninder Singh Walia, a leader of the Sikh coalition of the Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis, speaks during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at a FedEx facility on April 18 in Indianapolis.
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South Asian Communities Have Built Power in the Wake of Violence

Organizing and advocacy are key when confronting bigotry.
by Hardeep Dhillon via Made By History on May 15, 2021

The Bloody History of Anti-Asian Violence in the West

One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.
by Kevin Waite via National Geographic on May 10, 2021

How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border

A conversation between a historian and the creator of a new documentary short about NRA leader Harlon Carter.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Sierra Pettengill via Boston Review on May 7, 2021
A Union soldier sitting with his family

The Problem With Patriotism

I can’t ignore what this country has done to Black people. How do I find my place in it?
by Sasha Banks via The Atlantic on May 6, 2021
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Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories

The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on May 4, 2021
Lady Liberty bust in a park.

The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism

Liberty for some has always entailed a lack of liberty for many others.
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via The Nation on May 3, 2021

Liberal Nationalism is Back. It Must Start to Think Globally.

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive.
by Jeremy Adelman via Aeon on April 29, 2021
A white woman lounging on a "marshmallow sofa"

Mid-Century Modernism’s Racial History

What do we know about the history of these designs? Who was buying this furniture when modernism was new, and why?
by Kristina Wilson via Hyperallergic on April 26, 2021

What the 'America First Caucus' Gets Wrong on Anglo-Saxon History

"Everything's sort of layered on a false understanding of history."
by Olivia B. Waxman, Mary Rambaran-Olm via TIME on April 21, 2021
Asian-American men waiting to be questioned by white police officers

Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by Mae Ngai via The Atlantic on April 21, 2021
An eagle with a snake in its beak with the words "the eagle of liberty" over it.

Texas Secession: Whose Tradition?

The Texan secessionists are at it again.
by Paul Barba via Muster on April 13, 2021
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