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What the Name "Civil War" Tells Us-- and Why it Matters

Today’s battles over Confederate iconography emerge, in part, out of the failure to address the centrality of slavery to the war.

by Gaines M. Foster via Muster on September 11, 2018

Part of the Long History of Child Trafficking: 18th-Century French Louisiana

In the 1720s, French colonial authorities seized children off the streets of Paris and forced them to settle the New World.

by Julia M. Gossard via The Junto on June 27, 2018

Well-Behaved Women Make History Too

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?

by Joanna Scutts via Slate on June 21, 2018

A Most Violent Year

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

by Alan Wolfe via The New Republic on May 18, 2018

Two men crouching over many sticks of dynamite found in Owens Valley in 1924.

The Water War That Polarized 1920s California

When a "scofflaw carnival" occupied the L.A. aqueduct.

by Gary Krist via Literary Hub on May 17, 2018

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Inside the Band's Complicated History With the South

The Southern-rock group is much different than the one Ronnie Van Zant led in the Seventies.

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine via Rolling Stone on May 15, 2018

Svetlana Stalin being photographed

My Secret Summer With Stalin’s Daughter

In 1967, I was in the middle of one of the world’s buzziest stories.

by Grace Kennan Warnecke via Politico Magazine on April 29, 2018

Geronimo's tomb

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.

by Anna Badkhen via Literary Hub on November 21, 2017

Lithograph by Winslow Homer titled "Thanksgiving Day in the Army" depicting soldiers pulling apart a wishbone.

A Confederate Curriculum

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 6, 2017

We Legitimize the ‘So-Called’ Confederacy With Our Vocabulary, and That’s a Problem

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

by Christopher Wilson via Smithsonian Magazine on September 12, 2017

The Rage and Rebellion of the Detroit Riots, Captured in One Poem

50 years later, Philip Levine's poem, "They Feed They Lion," helps us remember and understand that time.

by Elizabeth Flock via PBS NewsHour on July 17, 2017

A Continental soldier in the Revolutionary War holding a tattered American flag and standing on chains.

We Could Have Been Canada

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on May 8, 2017

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016

Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica

A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.

by Tom Robbins via The Marshall Project on September 19, 2016

The inmates during a negotiating session on September 10, 1971. An uprising born of panic and confusion triggered a cascade of paranoia that extended to the Nixon White House.

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 22, 2016

A reporter interviewing another man near the wreckage from the Watts Rebellion.

Did The 1965 Watts Riots Change Anything?

Sociological data from immediately after the riots in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1965 show major disparities in attitude by race.

by Livia Gershon, David O. Sears, T. M. Tomlinson via JSTOR Daily on July 13, 2016

Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.

by Daniel Geary via Boston Review on May 19, 2016

Painting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin while writing the Declaration of Independence.

How the Complete Meaning of July Fourth Is Slipping Away

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.

by Gordon S. Wood via The New Republic on July 4, 2011

Alexander Hamilton.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

by William Hogeland via Boston Review on November 1, 2007

"Battle of Manila Bay" painting by James Gale Tyler (1898).

A “Little” War’s Foul Legacy

A new book offers bitter commentary on the onset of the age of American empire.

by Ralph L. Defalco via Law & Liberty on November 25, 2025

Demonstrators at an anti-Vietnam War protest held at Bronx Science High School in New York in April 1968.

New Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Teens During the 1960s

As high school students embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences.

by Aaron G. Fountain via Smithsonian Magazine on November 21, 2025

John Adams, Jefferson's pamphlet on the Rights of British America, and Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon.

What Actually Changed in 1776

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

by Edward J. Larson via The Atlantic on November 10, 2025

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Why the American Revolution Was a World War in All But Name

The transnational nature of America's fight for independence.

by Richard Bell via Literary Hub on November 7, 2025

A reenactor portraying a British soldier at Fort Ticonderoga.

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

by Caity Weaver via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025

Illustration by Josh Gosfield of Reagan in a suit, next to the fashions of Trumpism, including the red hat, the golden sneaker, and the Jan. 6 rioter with the horned headdress.

How Did Republican Fashion Go From Blazers to Belligerence?

Trump and his cronies’ style reflects a platform where grievance is currency and performance is power.

by Derek Guy via The Nation on September 10, 2025

Collage of photos of Lionel Trilling.

Lionel Trilling and the Limits of Crisis-Thought

Lionel Trilling defends humanism amid crisis culture, warning that obsessing over evil can erode the self and our capacity for moral and creative agency.

by Sam Gee via The Hedgehog Review on September 3, 2025

Young mother, St. Ann's Ave at E. 140th St., Bronx, 1977

Life in the Firestorm

The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave.

by Bench Ansfield via HNN on August 19, 2025

Ruhollah Khomeini salutes fellow-revolutionaries at a rally in 1979.

The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn’t Happen

From a dying adviser to a clumsy editorial, the Revolution was a cascade of accidents and oversights.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on August 4, 2025

Flowers and a fan drawing at a memorial for Ozzy Osbourne.

Ozzy Osbourne Taught Kids To Rebel By Subverting Christianity

In Ozzy Osbourne's hands, Satan gave a middle finger to hypocrisy and fearmongering.

by Matthew Avery Sutton via USA Today on July 24, 2025

Donald Trump; Alexander Hamilton.

Trump Is Hamiltonian, Not Jacksonian

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

by Francis P. Sempa via Modern Age on July 10, 2025

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