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Jarvis McInnis in a library, smiling at the camera.

Afterlives of the Plantation: An Interview with Jarvis C. McInnis

McInnis discusses what inspired his new book on the role of the Black South in the contruction of Black modernity.
by Robert Greene II, Jarvis C. McInnis via Black Perspectives on January 23, 2026
ASCII art of "We the People" by Paul Sahre.

Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on January 22, 2026
Art piece of two black women and a motif of kente cloth and cowrie shells.

The Black Feminist Collective That Gave Us Identity Politics

The Combahee River Collective’s 1977 statement reshaped the politics of the Black left and beyond.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Hammer & Hope on January 16, 2026

Return of the Silver Shirts

In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.
by Samuel G. Freedman via Liberal Currents on January 12, 2026
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.
Po'pay’s statue in the U.S. Capitol.

The 17th-Century Pueblo Leader Who Fought for Independence from Colonial Rule

Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
by Peter C. Mancall via The Conversation on January 9, 2026
Shawn Walker’s "Man with Bubble, Central Park," a surrealist photograph.

Did We Get the History of Modern American Art Wrong?

The standard story of 1960s art is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. The Whitney offers a different one centered on surrealism.
by Barry Schwabsky via The Nation on January 7, 2026
Albert Einstein collage photo with scientific diagrams.

Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics

The physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.
by Joshua Bennett via The Atlantic on January 2, 2026
"We The People" Constitution on top of many folders of paper.

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on December 21, 2025
The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930). (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
by Jane Borden via The Nation on November 26, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

A look at the long history of censorship in public school yearbooks.
by Kate Eichhorn via Literary Hub on November 25, 2025
Ken Burns

No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation

The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman.
by Dan McLaughlin via National Review on November 22, 2025
Illustration by Anna Ruch, featuring founder Thomas Jefferson.

Tell Students the Truth About American History

We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on November 16, 2025
Charles Garland with his wife and dog in 1921.

When the Tax Code Nudged Americans Toward Nonviolence

Chronicling the influence of the American Fund for Public Service.
by John Fabian Witt via HistPhil on October 27, 2025
A man stealing a painting, with images of maps, fingerprints, rings, and a building.

The Hardest-Working Art Thief in History

The 'Social Register' was a who’s who of America’s rich and powerful. It was also the perfect hit list.
by Jack Rodolico via The Atavist on October 25, 2025
John Lewis.

You Must Do Something

Tracing John Lewis’s lifelong fight for democracy and inclusion.
by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on October 17, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive President and the AHA

Theodore Roosevelt and the historical discipline.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via Perspectives on History on October 14, 2025
Black and white icons of people gathered into the shape of the US.

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.
by Ali Breland via The Atlantic on October 7, 2025
A woman showing another woman how to throw a bowling ball.
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The Bowling Alley: It’s a Woman’s World

Even when it was considered socially unacceptable, American women were knocking down pins on the local lanes.
by Betsy Golden Kellem via JSTOR Daily on September 24, 2025
A person white washing over a Texan Independence exhibit.

Texas’ Official History Museum Hides More Than It Shows

The Bullock Museum glorifies Texas heroes while treating slavery like an awkward uncle no one wants to talk about.
by Brian Gaar via The Barbed Wire on September 11, 2025
Althea Gibson holding her tennis racket at the London airport.

Ahead of the Game

Althea Gibson, one of the great tennis players of the twentieth century, made segregation in her sport untenable.
by Sasha Abramsky via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2025
Part of the Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, British Museum.

The Origins of the West

Georgios Varouxakis reexamines when and why people began to conceptualize "the West."
by Max Skjönsberg via Law & Liberty on August 25, 2025
Demonstrators march, carrying signs against firing City College faculty.

Eric Foner’s Personal History

Reflecting on his decades-long career, the historian considers what his field of study owes to the public.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on August 14, 2025
A drawing of the Division Street uprising, depicting a barricade and Puerto Rican flags.

How Chicago's Division Street Rebellion Brought Latinos Together

In 1966, police shot a young Puerto Rican man. What followed created a blueprint for a new kind of solidarity.
by Felipe Hinojosa via Zócalo Public Square on August 13, 2025
Three students standing in front of an exhibit titled "Problems of Democracy."
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A Republic, if They Can Force It

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”
by Timothy Messer-Kruse via HNN on August 12, 2025
Young Latino children holding a small American flags.

The Diversity Bell That Trump Can’t Un-ring

The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.
by Geraldo Cadava via The New Republic on August 7, 2025
Slaves working on a plantation.

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

On freedom, servitude, and writing a novel set in the seventeenth century.
by Princess Joy L. Perry via Literary Hub on August 7, 2025
A white hand gives a key to another white hand, bypassing a Black hand.

What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.
by Idrees Kahloon via The New Yorker on July 28, 2025
A visitor reads a sign called “Saving Muir Woods” in Muir Woods National Monument

Muir Woods Exhibit Becomes First Casualty of White House Directive to Erase History

Muir Woods National Monument added contextual notes to signs, filling in historical gaps. The Trump administration removed them.
by Olivia Hebert via SFGATE on July 22, 2025
Union leaders William Green, Hugo Ernst, and George Meany.

The War on Communists in the Hotel Workers’ Union

The rise and fall of Communists in New York’s hotel union reveals how socialists gained, wielded, and ultimately lost power in the U.S. labor movement.
by Shaun Richman via Jacobin on July 21, 2025
Grover Cleveland

The Gilded Age Roots of American Austerity

Both Trump and Cleveland employed the rhetoric of worthiness and efficiency, anti-fraud and anti-corruption, as justifications for their austerity measures.
by Dale Kretz via Jacobin on July 17, 2025
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