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The Long-Forgotten Vigilante Murders of the San Luis Valley

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.
by Robert Sanchez via 5280 on December 2, 2019

The Original Southerners

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.
by Malinda Maynor Lowery via Southern Cultures on November 27, 2019
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan

On the Great Secret-Keepers of History

Do archivists have political motivations too?
by Courtney Taylor via Literary Hub on November 21, 2019

The Invention of Thanksgiving

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on November 18, 2019
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“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.

The Right’s “Judeo-Christian” Fixation

How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.
by Udi Greenberg via The New Republic on November 14, 2019

Civility Is Overrated

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019
A crowd at an Industrial Workers of the World rally in New York in 1914.
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Why the Massacre at Centralia 100 Years Ago is Critically Important Today

Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.
by Steven C. Beda via Made By History on November 9, 2019

Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on November 9, 2019

The Achievements, and Compromises, of Two Reconstruction-era Amendments

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.
by John Fabian Witt via Washington Post on October 31, 2019
Pictures of people in collage form.

The Center Does Not Hold

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on October 29, 2019
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump.
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The Rudy Giuliani of Today is Just the Same Old Rudy

Giuliani’s old playbook of engaging in the politics of white grievance fits perfectly with his role as an unofficial aide to President Trump.
by Pedro Regalado via Made By History on October 23, 2019
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It’s Time to Make Election Day a Holiday in Law and Spirit

We need to bring back the celebratory atmosphere that animated Election Day in the 19th century.
by Holly Jackson via Made By History on October 22, 2019

The Mild, Mild West

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.
by Karl Jacoby via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 13, 2019

Building a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair

In the mid-1990s, Sarah McLachlan set out to prove a woman's place was center stage.
by Sasha Geffen, Jessica Hopper, Jenn Pelly via Vanity Fair on September 30, 2019

The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America

How three late 19th century equality movements failed to promote equality.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on September 24, 2019

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via The Nation on September 10, 2019

Full Pardon and Amnesty

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.
by Geoff Davidson via The Bitter Southerner on September 6, 2019
Reverend Barber speaking at an antipoverty rally.

Gird Up, Get Up, and Grow Up

On the origin and growth of the Moral Mondays movement.
by Timothy B. Tyson, William J. Barber II via Southern Cultures on September 1, 2019

Althea Gibson, Who Smashed Racial Barriers in Tennis, Honored With Statue at U.S. Open

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.
by Brigit Katz via Smithsonian on August 28, 2019

Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."
by Asif Siddiqi via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 28, 2019
Photo of Japanese American shops with employees and bicycles in front.

When Police Clamped Down on Southern California’s Japanese-American Bicycling Craze

Because cycling was an important mode of transportation for agricultural workers and a popular competitive sport, police saw it as a way to target immigrants.
by Genevieve Carpio via Zócalo Public Square on August 26, 2019
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Why Trying to Distinguish Between Useful and Dangerous Immigrants Always Backfires

Yesterday’s “good" immigrant can turn into tomorrow’s radical.
by Faith Hillis via Made By History on August 16, 2019
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What Hawaii’s Statehood Says About Inclusion in America

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.
by Sarah Miller Davenport via Made By History on August 16, 2019

How We Think About the Term 'Enslaved' Matters

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.
by Nell Irvin Painter via The Guardian on August 14, 2019
Ken Cuccinelli
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How President Trump’s New Immigration Rule Could Erode the Social Safety Net

The new rule dramatically expands the meaning of public charge.
by Salonee Bhaman via Made By History on August 14, 2019

Flirting With Fascism

The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.
by David Austin Walsh via Jewish Currents on July 24, 2019
John Tanton
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John Tanton Has Died. He Made America Less Open to Immigrants — and More Open to Trump.

The nativist activist helped make anti-immigrant politics mainstream.
by Carly Goodman via Made By History on July 18, 2019
Jackson statue in New Orleans.
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What Happens When Racism and Executive Overreach Intersect in the Oval Office

It happened during Andrew Jackson’s administration, with fatal consequences.
by Laura Ellyn Smith via Made By History on July 16, 2019

Behind Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Demand: A Long History of Rejecting ‘Different’ Americans

From Germans and Irish to blacks and Jews, new Americans often have been told to “go home.”
by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on July 15, 2019

The Times Are A Changin’

Reports of the death of nuanced interpretations of the Civil War have been grossly exaggerated.
by Nick Sacco via Exploring the Past on July 9, 2019
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