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The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.
by Jeremy Bangs via HNN on September 1, 2005
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The Myth of the Media's Role in Watergate

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.
by Mark Feldstein via HNN on August 30, 2004
Painting of Woody Guthrie smoking a cigarette while playing a guitar.

Woody Guthrie: Folk Hero

Guthrie challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was almost combatively anti-musical.
by David Hajdu via The New Yorker on March 21, 2004
Caricature of Martin Luther King's head

The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on April 11, 2002

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Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.
by Charles C. Mann via The Atlantic on March 1, 2002
Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, 1958.

Martin Luther King Was a Law Breaker

On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.
by Austin McCoy, Martin Sostre via Martin Sostre Institute on April 1, 1970
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
A. Philip Randolph.
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A. Philip Randolph Lambasts the Old Crowd

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.
by A. Philip Randolph, Martha H. Patterson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. via HNN on September 9, 2025
Eric Schmitt

The Schmittian Enemy

What's up at the NatC Conference.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on September 4, 2025
Angel Oak is a Southern live oak tree located in Angel Oak Park, on Johns Island, one of South Carolina’s Sea Islands. It is estimated to be over 400 years old, and stands 65 feet tall, measuring 9 feet in diameter. Shade from its crown covers an area of 17,000 square feet. Its longest limb is 89 feet in length. he oak derives its name from the Angel estate, although local folklore told of stories of ghosts of former slaves would appear as angels around the tree. (slworking2, Flickr)

The Trees at the Center of Our History

From the Pequot War to the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, trees tell a living story.
by Paul Rosenbeg via Barn Raiser on August 25, 2025
An apartment building on fire.

Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?

To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signaled rampant crime; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on August 18, 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
Anatomical diagram of a man's head with a landscape and shining sun where the brain would be.

What Does ‘Genius’ Really Mean?

Humans have long tried to understand a quicksilver quality that defies explanation.
by Helen Lewis via The Atlantic on August 14, 2025
Shadowy outlines of people with military style rifles on a black background.

Pipe Hitters

American special operators brought their tactics in the global war on terror back home.
by Grayson Scott via The Baffler on August 14, 2025
A-bomb dome in Hiroshima.

Eighty Years of the Bomb

It is time for conservatives to reclaim their criticism of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
by Hunter DeRensis via The American Conservative on August 9, 2025
Mel Bradford on the cover of Southern Partisan magazine in 1992.

A Paleoconservative War Story

The conservative movement "assumed it had intellectual ownership over the presidency," but an NEH appointment fight reveals the Reagan administration disagreed.
by Joshua Tait via To Live Is To Maneuver on July 29, 2025
Collage of images including spacecrafts, the moon and President Kennedy surround a jumping Elon Musk.

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on July 28, 2025
Alligator

Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?

Long before the new detention facility in Florida, the reptile has featured in the fantasies of Southern racists.
by Asher Elbein via Defector on July 9, 2025
A painting of a waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.

America the Beautiful

The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times.
by Lincoln Caplan via The American Scholar on July 4, 2025
A man walks down the street dressed as Uncle Sam and carries a large baby Donald Trump doll.

Cracked, Costly Fantasies

The legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
by Dan O’Sullivan via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 28, 2025
Irving Thalberg and his wife, with Louis Mayer.

The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on June 9, 2025
Scene of prehistoric game hunters.

Prehistory’s Original Sin

We need more than genealogies to know who we are, and who we ought to become.
by Connor Grubaugh via The Hedgehog Review on May 6, 2025
Helicopter, soldiers, and civilians at the fall of Saigon.
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How We Oversimplified the History of the Vietnam War

Popular memory of the war in both the U.S. and Vietnam tends to cast the fall of Saigon as inevitable.
by Andrew Bellisari via Made By History on April 30, 2025
Filmmaker Oliver Stone speaks to journalists following a hearing with the House Oversight Committee at the US Capitol on April 1, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Oliver Stone Goes to Washington

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.
by Oliver Stone, Ed Rampell via Jacobin on April 18, 2025
A woman holding her head in distress, and a naked woman sitting on an illustration of a toy car pulled by string.

Frog-Free

The demystification of pregnancy.
by Erin Maglaque via London Review of Books on April 17, 2025
Miami's skyline with high-rises under construction.

How Dreams of Buried Pirate Treasure Enticed Americans to Flock to Florida

1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers’ visions of striking it rich.
by Greg Daugherty via Smithsonian on April 15, 2025
Donald Trump and the presidential seal in an empty theater.

The Hoax that Spawned an Age of American Conspiracism

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are just the latest populists to weaponise fears of a sinister “deep state”.
by Phil Tinline via New Statesman on April 2, 2025
An aerial view of houses in Jersey City, United States on July 13, 2024.

Is The ‘Predatory’ Property Tax An Instrument Of Oppression?

According to Andrew Kahrl, the property tax has been used to disposs black homeowners since the 19th century.
by Joseph J. Thorndike via Forbes on March 24, 2025
Painting of Casimir Pulaski on a horse in battle.

Discover the Short Life and Long Legacy of Casimir Pulaski

On the first Monday in March, Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago’s Polish Museum of America honored the “Father of American Cavalry,” 280 years after his birth.
by Eli Wizevich via Smithsonian on March 6, 2025
President Eisenhower; The silhouette of a hand pressing into a fence that is blocking the American flag.

The Shaky History of Mass Deportations

‘Operation Wetback’ and ‘Mexican Repatriation’ worked—until they didn’t.
by Benjamin Montoya via The Dispatch on March 5, 2025
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