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Illustration of an AI machine reading a book.

How AI Can Make History

Large language models can do a lot of things. But can they write like an 18th-century fur trader?

by Josh Dzieza via The Verge on February 15, 2024

Black and white photograph of an abandoned house with bare trees surrounding it

This Peaceful Nature Sanctuary in Washington, D.C. Sits on the Ruins of a Plantation

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed, a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home.

by Sue Eisenfeld via Smithsonian on February 7, 2024

A young Black girl picking cotton.

Rings of Fire

Arsenic cycles through racism and empire in the Americas.

by Jayson Maurice Porter via Distillations on February 1, 2024

At center: organized labor leader John L. Lewis surrounded by crowds of male workers of all races.

Fragile Juggernaut

Introducing a project on US labor history, exploring what we can learn from 1930s-1950s industrial struggles.

by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via n+1 on January 24, 2024

A family of Greek immigrants disembarking on Ellis Island.

For We Were Strangers in the Land of America

Comparing the struggles of Mexican and Greek immigrants to the United States.

by Paul Apostolidis via New Lines on January 24, 2024

Nellie Bly.

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.

by Lee Gutkind via Literary Hub on January 23, 2024

Niels Vodder display with furniture designed by Finn Juhl, Cabinetmakers Guild Exhibition, 1949.

Freedom Furniture

How did Americans come to love “mid-century modern”?

by Marianela D’Aprile via The Nation on January 23, 2024

Colorful abstract painting

The New Declaration of Sentiments

Four important court cases that have defined the landscape of women’s rights in the United States.

by Elizabeth L. Silver via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 23, 2024

A small farmworker house in Ventura with children playing outside.

Reimagining Resistance, Reconstructing Community

Farmworker housing cooperatives in Ventura County, California.

by Frank P. Barajas via Tropics of Meta on January 12, 2024

Photo of "Madness: Race and insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum" with photo of author Antonia Hylton alongside it.

What It Was Like to Be a Black Patient in a Jim Crow Asylum?

In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients.

by Julia Métraux, Antonia Hylton via Mother Jones on January 10, 2024

Leaders of the 1963 March on Washington posing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial. August 28, 1963.

How the 1619 Project Distorted History

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

by James Oakes via Jacobin on December 27, 2023

A group of men in a mailroom pose next to tube equipment

When a Labyrinth of Pneumatic Tubes Shuttled Mail Beneath the Streets of New York City

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953.

by Vanessa Armstrong via Smithsonian on December 22, 2023

A group of Transappalachain migrant workers in Department 312 of the Anderson Delco-Remy plant pose for a photograph in February 1953.

On the New Book, "Hillbilly Highway"

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.

by Max Fraser, Joseph Rathke via LaborOnline on December 15, 2023

Scene from "Schindler's List."

How 'Schindler's List' Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Holocaust

The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories.

by Emily Tamkin via Smithsonian on December 14, 2023

A herd of bison.

A Panoramic View of the West

A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.

by Bradley J. Birzer via Law & Liberty on December 13, 2023

Bayard Rustin speaks from the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.

Bayard Rustin Showed the Promise and Pitfalls of Coalition Politics

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.

by Chris Maisano via Jacobin on December 9, 2023

Farmers on a tractor harvesting grain.

Rural America Has Lost Its Soul

Jefferson's vision of the family farm is a myth that won't die.

by Steven Conn via UnHerd on November 27, 2023

An undated engraving depicting Ku Klux Klan vigilantes in Kansas.

When Bosses Were Terrorists

Historians depict late 19th-century American business elites as agents of progress, but many of them could also be called “terrorists.”

by Chad Pearson via Jacobin on November 23, 2023

British trade unionists blockade a weapons factory on November 10th, 2023.

The Problem of the Unionized War Machine

Union workers in the US weapons industry present a paradox for anti-war labor activists, but a history of “conversion” campaigns offers a route.

by Jeff Schuhrke via Jewish Currents on November 22, 2023

The cult-like aesthetic of technocracy, 1942.

Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the Origins of AI's Ideological Divide

The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk.

by Benjamin Breen via Res Obscura on November 21, 2023

The Three Strikes You’re Out fishing crew : several older Black man posing and smiling around a large fish.

Fish Hacks

Often dismissed as a “trash fish,” the porgy is an anchor of Black maritime culture.

by Jayson Maurice Porter via Distillations on November 17, 2023

Collage of Black woman and marriage certificate.

Why Is America Afraid of Black History?

No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.

by Lonnie G. Bunch III via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023

Conference of Studio Unions' months-long strike against Hollywood studios in 1945.

How Hollywood’s Black Friday Strike Changed Labor Across America

A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.

by Gerald Horne, Anthony Ballas via Zócalo Public Square on November 9, 2023

Enslaved people working on South Carolina Plantation.

A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

by Ken Masugi via Law & Liberty on November 8, 2023

UAW President Shawn Fain greeting striking Ford workers.

The Ghost of Reuther Past

The new UAW faces new challenges, but bears some distinct resemblances to the old.

by Harold Meyerson via The American Prospect on November 6, 2023

Hamilton’s System

Who is the father of American capitalism?

by Jacob Soll via The Hedgehog Review on November 1, 2023

A Mexican family stands next to the border wall between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on May 23, 2017.

America’s Border Wall Is Bipartisan

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

by Mary Mendoza via Made By History on October 30, 2023

A woman standing with arms outstretched

The Last Lighthouse Keeper in America

In a technological age, impassioned devotees renew an ancient maritime tradition.

by Dorothy Wickenden via The New Yorker on October 30, 2023

A photograph of Louisa May Alcott.

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women, but she earned her first taste of celebrity as an essayist.

by Liz Rosenberg via Literary Hub on October 24, 2023

How Public Opinion May Decide the FTC Amazon Antitrust Suit

In the 1920s, electricity monopolies survived an antitrust investigation because they had won over the public.

by Daniel Robert via Made By History on October 24, 2023

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