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Hitler's American Dream
The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.
by
Timothy Snyder
via
Slate
on
March 8, 2017
Native Land Digital
Do you live on Native American territory?
via
Native Land Digital
on
January 1, 2017
A History and Future of Resistance
The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession.
by
Julian Brave NoiseCat
,
Annie Spice
via
Jacobin
on
September 8, 2016
partner
Who Was Christopher Columbus?
An author's search for the "real" Christopher Columbus.
via
BackStory
on
October 10, 2014
History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives
A series of objects of both Native and non-Native origin that tell a story of extraordinary culture disruption.
via
Digital Public Library of America
on
April 16, 2013
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
Trump Calls the U.S.-Canada Border an "Artificial Line." That's not Entirely True.
Just because it's man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate.
by
Rachel Treisman
via
NPR
on
May 9, 2025
partner
The Blood on the Keyboard
The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.
by
Marina Manoukian
via
HNN
on
March 25, 2025
Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark the End of the Postwar Order
Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.
by
Dirk Moses
via
Jacobin
on
February 16, 2025
Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.
by
Nick Turse
via
The Intercept
on
November 28, 2024
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
The story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel.
by
Evan I. Schwartz
via
Smithsonian
on
November 18, 2024
America Is Not America Yet
On American history and the history of the word “America.”
by
Alexander Aviña
via
The Dial
on
October 3, 2024
“Weapons of Health Destruction…” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet
On the impact of systematic oppression on indigenous cuisine in the United States.
by
Andrea Freeman
via
Literary Hub
on
July 24, 2024
The Abuses of Prehistory
Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.
by
Udi Greenberg
via
The New Republic
on
May 10, 2024
Reviving the Language of Empire
On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.
by
Aziz Rana
,
Nora Caplan-Bricker
via
Jewish Currents
on
May 9, 2024
A Young Black Scientist Discovered a Pivotal Leprosy Treatment in the 1920s
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.
by
Mark M. Lambert
via
The Conversation
on
April 12, 2024
Slavery Was Crucial for the Development of Capitalism
Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.
by
Robin Blackburn
,
Owen Dowling
via
Jacobin
on
April 10, 2024
A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change
During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures.
by
Kathleen DuVal
via
The Atlantic
on
April 2, 2024
This New York City Map Is Full of Dutch Secrets
When Broadway was a broad way and Wall Street was a wall.
by
April White
via
Atlas Obscura
on
March 19, 2024
partner
Will the Sun Ever Set on the Colony?
Tracking the history of a curious scientific term.
by
Whitney Barlow Robles
via
HNN
on
February 13, 2024
What Does the United States Owe Central America?
A new work of nonfiction revives a history that some would sooner see forgotten.
by
Gus Bova
via
The Texas Observer
on
January 22, 2024
On the Shared Histories of Reconstruction in the Americas
In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then came democracy’s fight against reaction.
by
Evan C. Rothera
via
Aeon
on
January 16, 2024
On the Map
The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. The resemblance is intentional.
by
Carleigh Beriont
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
December 12, 2023
partner
‘Atoms for Peace’ Was Never All That Peaceful—And the World Is Still Living With the Consequences
The U.S. sought to rebrand nuclear power as a source of peace, but this message helped mask a violent history.
by
Tommy Song
via
Made By History
on
December 8, 2023
Hard Times
The radical art of the Depression years.
by
Rachel Himes
via
The Nation
on
November 27, 2023
How Publicity of Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour
On the performance of authenticity and the native stories left to tell.
by
Paul Morton
via
Literary Hub
on
November 20, 2023
They Were Deported to Build a U.S. Naval Base. Now They Want Reparations.
50 years after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.
by
DeNeen L. Brown
via
Washington Post
on
October 8, 2023
Revealing the Smithsonian’s ‘Racial Brain Collection’
The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior.
by
Nicole Dungca
,
Claire Healy
via
Washington Post
on
August 14, 2023
Asians In Early America
Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru.
by
Diego Javier Luis
via
Aeon
on
June 13, 2023
How Long Did the School Year Last in Early America?
Even throwing off of a colonial power, representative institutions, Protestantism, and local autonomy in school decisions did not produce an egalitarian system.
by
Carole Shammas
via
Cambridge Core Blog
on
June 12, 2023
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