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Boiling House at the Sugar Plantation Asunción, Cuba, 1857.

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
Cover of "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance To Federal Power"

The Little Man’s Big Friends

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on May 24, 2023
Senator McCarran greeted by a group of men in front of a plane.

What Nevada Stole from Its Indigenous People

Senator Pat McCarran’s vision for the desert carried a tradition of dispossession into the mid-20th century.
by Taylor Rose via Zócalo Public Square on April 3, 2023
Map of Jamaica.

Revisiting Restoration

Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.
by Jonah Estess via Commonplace on March 1, 2023
Map of the Cherokee Country in 1900

How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.
by Joel Richard Paul via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022
Photo of Sitting Bull with an aerial view of the Yellowstone Basin in the background.

How Sitting Bull's Fight for Indigenous Land Rights Shaped the Creation of Yellowstone National Park

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty.
by Megan Kate Nelson via Smithsonian on March 1, 2022
Black and white photograph of four men standing amongst barrels of alcohol.

The Truth About Prohibition

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via The Atlantic on January 1, 2022

New England Once Hunted and Killed Humans for Money. We’re Descendants of the Survivors

The settlers who are mythologized at Thanksgiving as peace-loving Pilgrims were offering cash for Native American heads less than a generation later.
by Dawn Neptune Adams, Maulian Dana, Adam Mazo via The Guardian on November 15, 2021
Statue of missionary Marcus Whitman in a park.
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The Nomination of Chuck Sams to Lead the Park Service is Already Changing History

The NPS is working with Cayuse historians and students to correct a historical lie that shaped the West.
by Blaine Harden via Made By History on October 18, 2021
Photo: "Mother Bird Protecting Her Young"

Motherhood at the End of the World

"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”
by Julietta Singh via The Paris Review on September 1, 2021

Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
by Karin Wulf via Aeon on July 15, 2021
American Progress by John Gast, 1872. Painting depicting an angel hovering above white settlers heading west.

On Nostalgia and Colonialism on the New Oregon Trail

What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?
by T. J. Tallie via Hyperallergic on May 16, 2021
Wooden cross in the Eli Jackson Methodist Church cemetery in San Juan, Texas.

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 via New York Review of Books on May 13, 2021
Pro-Trump protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6
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Talk of Secession Always Gets U.S. History Wrong

Americans have always been deeply divided.
by Alan Taylor via Made By History on May 11, 2021
An eagle with a snake in its beak with the words "the eagle of liberty" over it.

Texas Secession: Whose Tradition?

The Texan secessionists are at it again.
by Paul Barba via Muster on April 13, 2021
Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake.

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.
by David Treuer via The Atlantic on April 12, 2021
Screenshot of map showing post offices between 1848 and 1895.

Gossamer Network

An interactive digital history project chronicling how the U.S. Post was the underlying circuitry of western expansion.
by Cameron Blevins, Yan Wu, Steven Braun via Northeastern University on March 31, 2021
Nurse Harriet Curley takes the pulse of a patient at Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Indian reservation in 1949. (AP)

How Native Americans Were Vaccinated Against Smallpox, Then Pushed Off Their Land

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.
by Dana Hedgpeth via Washington Post on March 28, 2021
Painting of the Ohio River, ca. 1840.

A Confusion of Language

On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.
by Kate Masur via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 24, 2021
A Seminole man puts his hand inside the mouth of an alligator

How Florida’s Seminole Tribe Transformed Alligator Wrestling Into a Symbol of Independence

Once a means of survival, and then an exploitative spectacle, the sport can also embody a synergy with a top predator in Florida’s changing landscape.
by Adam Piron, Murat Oztaskin, Adam Khalil via The New Yorker on January 27, 2021
Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud in a formal portrait arranged by William Blackmore, whose hand is visible at right

The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.
by David Treuer via New York Review of Books on November 11, 2020
Artwork depicting the Trail of Tears.

Was Indian Removal Genocidal?

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Panorama on August 4, 2020
A Native American community gathers for a powwow

How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic

Native communities in North America have been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19. This isn't the first time.
by S. I. Rosenbaum, Arigon Starr via The Nib on July 29, 2020
Bosque Redondo

Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth About Union Monuments in the West

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.
by Megan Kate Nelson via The Atlantic on July 10, 2020
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How Oscar Speeches Became So Political

Oscar night has become a platform for stars to pitch political causes.
via Retro Report on February 5, 2020

The Way American Kids Are Learning About the 'First Thanksgiving' Is Changing

"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on November 21, 2019
Drawing of two laborers in a vast agricultural field with a farmhouse in the background.

A Family From High Plains

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by Nick Martin via Splinter on August 2, 2018

The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.
by Robert Lee via Slate on March 1, 2017
Pilgrims going to church armed with guns.

God and Guns

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The Revealer on September 25, 2015
Pilgrim Thanksgiving

Which Thanksgiving?

The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.
by Karl Jacoby via Los Angeles Times on November 26, 2008

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