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Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.

by Dave Zirin via The Nation on February 24, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."

by Samuel G. Freedman via Literary Hub on January 30, 2020

“They Like That Soft Bread”

In Knoxville, Tennessee, folks love sandwiches from a Fresh-O-Matic steamer like they love their grandmas.

by Chelsey Mae Johnson via The Bitter Southerner on January 14, 2020

The sun shining through the crown of a lone tree in an agricultural field.

What The Mississippi Delta Teaches Me About Home—And Hope

Finding struggle and resilience on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues.

by Wright Thompson via Fellow Travelers on January 6, 2020

Civility Is Overrated

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019

African-American cowboys in Bonham, Texas, circa 1913

The Real Texas

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 24, 2019

Who Speaks for Crazy Horse?

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

by Brooke Jarvis via The New Yorker on September 16, 2019

Crowd gathered around statue for Stonewall Jackson memorial dedication, Charlottesville, 1921.

UVA and the History of Race: The Lost Cause Through Judge Duke’s Eyes

A profile of UVA graduate R.T.W. Duke Jr., who presided over the 1924 dedication of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via UVA Today on September 4, 2019

California’s Forgotten Confederate History

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

by Kevin Waite via The New Republic on August 19, 2019

Rethinking the Construction of Ronald Reagan's Legacy

Conservatives created a rosy image of Reagan to further their political project.

by Sarah Thomson via Made By History on August 12, 2019

Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.

by Michael W. Twitty via Afroculinaria on August 9, 2019

Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on July 18, 2019

Ross Perot, Populist Harbinger

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.

by Jacqueline Brandon via Dissent on July 10, 2019

An Ives Fourth

Nostalgia or nightmare?

by Sudip Bose via The American Scholar on July 4, 2019

Introducing the Brand-New Historic District

A company hopes its construction of a Historic District will satisfy those who are upset with its demolition of historic sites.

by Jeremiah Budin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019

Oklahoma Was Never Really O.K.

A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical — and the American experiment.

by Frank Rich via Vulture on April 2, 2019

Remembering Emmett Till

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.

by Dave Tell via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

How America Thought About Refugees 70 Years Ago

And other gleanings from the 1949 run of the Saturday Evening Post.

by Benjamin Breen on February 26, 2019

American Progress painting by John Gast.

Getting Out of the White Settlers’ Way

Re-telling the arrival of settlers on the prairie.

by Andrew Klumpp via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on January 31, 2019

Mannequin modeling a prairie dress.

The Settler Fantasies Woven Into the Prairie Dresses

The fashion trend is shorn entirely of the racism and colonial entitlement it once cloaked.

by Peggy O'Donnell via Jezebel on January 30, 2019

Row of suburban houses.

The Myth of "We Don't Build Houses Like We Used To"

The comment lament misses crucial context about the style trends and building materials of the past.

by Kate Wagner via Curbed on January 16, 2019

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on December 12, 2018

A woman dressed in steampunk fashion.

Steampunk for Historians

It's about time.

by Scott P. Marler via Perspectives on History on December 3, 2018

What the Popularity of 'Fortnite' Has in Common With the 20th Century Pinball Craze

Long before parents freaked over the ubiquitous video game, they flipped out over another newfangled fad.

by Clive Thompson via Smithsonian on November 29, 2018

Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

Mountains on fire above a town.

Defensible Space

“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.

by Jessie Kindig via Boston Review on October 22, 2018

Living with Dolly Parton

Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

by Jessica Wilkerson via Longreads on October 16, 2018

Green and Pleasant Land

A review of four books that all deal with the long-lasting contradictions between the mythology and reality of farming.

by Verlyn Klinkenborg via New York Review of Books on September 26, 2018

The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.

by Caroline Grego via Environmental History Now on September 13, 2018

My Fellow Prisoners

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.

by George Blaustein via n+1 on August 29, 2018

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