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How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History
We’re capturing the mundane as well as the memorable.
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Allison Marsh
via
IEEE Spectrum
on
June 30, 2020
Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected
Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?
by
George Blaustein
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European Journal Of American Studies
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June 30, 2020
The Indebted Dead
Tracing the history of the Grateful Dead folktale and the evolving obligations of being alive.
by
Colin Dickey
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 29, 2020
Was El Monte Really Founded by White Pioneers?
A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.
by
Steve Chiotakis
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KCRW
on
June 24, 2020
partner
The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests
Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.
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Richard Schneirov
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HNN
on
June 21, 2020
Reunion, Juneteenth and the Meaning of the Civil War
What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?
by
Ben Railton
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The Saturday Evening Post
on
June 16, 2020
Police Have Long History of Responding to Black Movements by Playing the Victim
Amid calls to defund police, cops are framing themselves as victims. We must remember who is really being brutalized.
by
Max Felker-Kantor
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Truthout
on
June 13, 2020
Of Plagues and Papers: COVID-19, the Media, and the Construction of American Disease History
The different ways news media approaches pandemic reporting.
by
Abigail Shelton
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Clio and the Contemporary
on
May 1, 2020
COVID-19 and the Outbreak Narrative
Outbreak narratives from past diseases can be influential in the way we think about the COVID pandemic.
by
Priscilla Wald
,
Kym Weed
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Southern Cultures
on
April 2, 2020
partner
Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. That Trope Has a Troubling History.
Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.
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Mia Brett
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Made By History
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March 28, 2020
"City on a Hill" and the Making of an American Origin Story
A now-famous Puritan sermon was nothing special in its own day.
by
Abram C. Van Engen
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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February 18, 2020
partner
Why the Iowa Caucuses May Elevate an Underdog
History shows that this blockbuster event is merely a test of organizational strength in one small state.
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Amber Roessner
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Made By History
on
February 3, 2020
The Closeting of Carson McCullers
Through her relationships with other women, one can trace the evidence of McCullers’s becoming, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a writer.
by
Jenn Shapland
via
The Paris Review
on
February 3, 2020
1619?
What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?
by
Sasha Turner
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Black Perspectives
on
January 14, 2020
The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History
Though significant, the end of the Cold War was not nearly as significant a turning point as President George H.W. Bush suggested it would be in 1990.
by
Andrew J. Bacevich
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The Nation
on
January 13, 2020
They Wanted to Remake the World; Instead We Got President Trump
Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.
by
Beverly Gage
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Washington Post
on
January 10, 2020
The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
by
Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
on
December 23, 2019
The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset
More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.
by
Nikhil Pal Singh
via
Boston Review
on
November 26, 2019
The Treason of the Elites
For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.
by
Rich Lowry
via
National Review
on
October 24, 2019
The Real Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius
The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
by
Casey N. Cep
via
The New Yorker
on
October 21, 2019
Story-Shaped Things
Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.
by
Jonathan W. Wilson
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Contingent
on
October 16, 2019
The Mild, Mild West
H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.
by
Karl Jacoby
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
October 13, 2019
Historical Fanfiction as Affective History Making
How online fandoms are allowing people to find themselves in the narrative.
by
Sarah Calise
via
Nursing Clio
on
October 2, 2019
The Battle to Rewrite Texas History
Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.
by
Christopher Hooks
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Texas Monthly
on
September 18, 2019
The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.
by
Megan Gannon
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Sapiens
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September 4, 2019
What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
by
Erin Bartram
via
Contingent
on
August 8, 2019
The Tangled History of American and Israeli Exceptionalism
Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.
by
Rashid Khalidi
via
The Nation
on
June 3, 2019
Pessimism and Primary Sources in the Survey
The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.
by
Jonathan W. Wilson
via
Teaching United States History
on
May 20, 2019
An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to 'The Twilight Zone'
His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.
by
Jackie Mansky
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Smithsonian
on
April 1, 2019
Colorizing and Fictionalizing the Past
The technical wizardry of Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" should not obscure its narrow, outdated storyline.
by
Bridget Keown
via
Nursing Clio
on
February 12, 2019
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