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Two Years That Made the West
In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California.
by
Elliott West
via
American Heritage
on
July 3, 2024
partner
Invading Other Countries to ‘Help’ People Has Long Had Devastating Consequences
For more than a century, U.S. wars of invasion have claimed a humanitarian mantle.
by
Joel Zapata
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Made By History
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September 10, 2021
partner
Every American Needs to Take a History of Mexico Class
Learning the history of Mexico can help Americans better understand themselves.
by
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
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Made By History
on
July 22, 2021
During the Mexican-American War Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the 'Saint Patrick's Battalion'
Anti-Catholic sentiment in the States gave men like John Riley little reason to continue to pay allegiance to the stars and stripes.
by
Francine Uenuma
via
Smithsonian
on
March 15, 2019
Why Do We Salute Volunteer Soldiers but Scorn Professional Warriors?
Since the Mexican-American War, Army regulars haven't always been treated as heroes.
by
Peter Guardino
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Zócalo Public Square
on
January 5, 2018
The President Who Did It All in One Term — and What Biden Could Learn From Him
James K. Polk is considered one of the most successful presidents, even though he did not seek reelection.
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Joshua Zeitz
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Politico Magazine
on
December 2, 2022
We Have Always Been Global: Tribal Nations in the Democratic Slide
In the 19th century, Native American nations were early pioneers in constitutional democracy.
by
Noah Ramage
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Perspectives on History
on
June 21, 2022
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History
McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.
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Bennett Parten
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
February 9, 2022
The First Lost Cause: Transnational Memory
A comparison of the "Lost Cause" narratives from the Confederacy and Mexico's side of the Mexican-American War.
by
Niels Eichhorn
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Muster
on
November 30, 2021
When Slaves Fled to Mexico
A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.
by
David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
on
May 13, 2021
Pancho Villa, Prostitutes and Spies: The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall’s Wild Origins
President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.
by
Michael E. Miller
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Retropolis
on
January 10, 2019
What America Can Learn From the Americas
Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.
by
Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
on
April 7, 2025
The Democratic Promise of Manifest Destiny
All Americans with some education are aware that Manifest Destiny was one of the Bad Things in our past and very few know any more about it than that.
by
Hamilton Craig
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Compact
on
March 25, 2025
Trump’s Imperial Fantasy: To Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once
Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.
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Thom Hartmann
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The New Republic
on
March 17, 2025
Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire
He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
June 21, 2023
Who Was Fort Bragg Named After? The South’s Worst, Most Hated General.
Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis say they would restore the Fort Bragg name if elected. Its namesake was a “merciless tyrant” who helped lose the Civil War.
by
Ronald G. Shafer
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Washington Post
on
June 16, 2023
The Black Families Seeking Reparations in California’s Gold Country
Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history.
by
Michael Scott Moore
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The New Yorker
on
May 17, 2023
Blues, Grays & Greenbacks
How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.
by
Nicholas Guyatt
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New York Review of Books
on
May 4, 2023
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Annotated
Signed February 2, 1848, the treaty compelled Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, bringing more than 525,000 square miles under US sovereignty.
by
Liz Tracey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
February 2, 2023
The Doctor and the Confederate
A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
via
Smithsonian
on
January 10, 2023
The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I
What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
by
David McKenzie
via
Contingent
on
September 26, 2022
A Tale of Two Toms
The uses and abuses of history through the "diary" of Thomas Fallon.
by
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
via
Commonplace
on
July 12, 2022
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High Domes and Bottomless Pits
Exploring the homes of two presidents, the birthplace of another, and a natural wonder that once drew visitors from far and wide.
by
Ed Ayers
on
July 6, 2022
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Gone to Carolina
Ed Ayers heads south in search of stories from two centuries ago. Traces are there, but larger meanings remain elusive.
by
Ed Ayers
on
May 31, 2022
partner
Cinco De Mayo: American As Apple Empanadas
Cinco de Mayo has deep roots in Mexican American history.
by
Ruben A. Arellano
via
Made By History
on
May 5, 2022
There’s No Such Thing As ‘The Latino Vote’
Why can’t America see that?
by
Geraldo Cadava
via
The Atlantic
on
February 14, 2022
The Past and Future of Native California
A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.
by
Julian Brave NoiseCat
via
The Nation
on
January 24, 2022
“We Left All on the Ground but the Head”: J. J. Audubon’s Human Skulls
Morton and his skull measurements have long been part of the scholarship on American racism, but what happens when we draw Audubon into the racial drama?
by
Ann Fabian
via
Commonplace
on
November 12, 2021
The American Maginot Line (Pt. 2)
Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”
by
Alex Aviña
via
Foreign Exchanges
on
September 27, 2021
The Southern Slaveholders Dreamed of a Slaveholding Empire
Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.
by
Arvind Dilawar
,
Kevin Waite
via
Jacobin
on
September 21, 2021
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