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Map of Nova Scotia

Imagining Nova Scotia: The Limits of an Eighteenth-Century Imperial Fantasy

Colonial planners saw Nova Scotia as a blank space ripe for transformation.
by Alexandra L. Montgomery via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 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
Old Bay Seasoning

The Jewish Roots of Old Bay Seasoning

Oy Bay! Become seasoned on the history of America's beloved spice blend.
by Leah Siesfeld via The Nosher on March 30, 2021
Trump at a podium campaigning.
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1846 — Not 1861 — Reminds Us Why Seceding Won’t Work For Disgruntled Trump Supporters

Trump fans are better off as Americans.
by Thomas Richards Jr. via Made By History on January 4, 2021

The Enduring Lessons of a New Deal Writers Project

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.
by Jon Allsop via Columbia Journalism Review on December 22, 2020
Johnny Cash poses for a portrait for a publicity shot
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The Complications of “Outlaw Country”

Johnny Cash grappled with the many facets of the outlaw archetype in his feature acting debut, Five Minutes to Live.
by Kristin Hunt via JSTOR Daily on December 3, 2020
An illustration of deviled eggs.

The Secrets of Deviled Eggs

A food writer cracks into the power of food memories and what deviled eggs might tell us about who we are and who we might become.
by Emily Strasser via The Bitter Southerner on November 12, 2020
A photo of a gas station.

Our Interminable Election Eve

William Eggleston’s photographs of the South on the eve of the 1976 election captured an eerie quiet.
by Jonah Goldman Kay via The Paris Review on November 5, 2020
A graphic for the Federal Theatre Project.

Can We Save American Theater by Reviving a Bold Idea from the 1930s?

The Federal Theatre Project put dramatic artists to work — and we could do it again.
by Wendy Smith via The National Book Review on November 1, 2020

On the Great and Terrible Hurricane of 1938

And the lone forecaster who predicted its deadly path.
by Eric Jay Dolin via Literary Hub on August 6, 2020
Protests at the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, with an image of Robert E. Lee edited in the sky behind them.

How Northern Publishers Cashed In on Fundraising for Confederate Monuments

In the years after the Civil War, printmakers in New York and elsewhere abetted the Lost Cause movement by selling images of false idols.
by Harold Holzer via Smithsonian Magazine on July 7, 2020
Two statues next to each other

Confederates in the Capitol

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on June 29, 2020
Collage of military uniforms and a Confederate general over a photo of troops training on a military base.

The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy

Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?
by Michael Paradis via The Atlantic on June 26, 2020
A man plowing with a mule

Revisiting “Forty Acres and a Mule”

The backstory to the backstory of America’s mythic promise.
by Bennett Parten via We're History on June 15, 2020

The Idea of a Nation

The idea of a modern nation is both confusing and conflicting. And as the world confronts the current global health crisis, its weaknesses become more apparent.
by Thomas Meaney via The Point on June 12, 2020
Book cover of the Three Cornered War, featuring a southwestern desert landscape.

A Different Civil War in the Southwest

A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.
by Sam Kleiner via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 10, 2020
Postage stamp depicting the ratification of the Constitution.

The Corrupt Bargain

Two new books make the case against the Electoral College.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on May 21, 2020

Milk Country

The making of Vermont's landscape.
by Janice Kai Chen via janicekchen.com on May 9, 2020
African American men in jail.

“We Were Called Comrades Without Condescension or Patronage”

In the Jim Crow South, the Alabama Communist Party distinguished itself as a champion of racial and economic justice.
by Arvind Dilawar, Mary Stanton via Jacobin on April 30, 2020

John Sherman’s Struggle to Preserve Democracy

This is not the first time that democratic governance appeared to be under assault.
by Daniel W. Crofts via Muster on March 17, 2020

Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies

How early blues musicians processed the toll taken by tornadoes, floods, and other disasters that displaced them from their communities.
by J. T. Roane via Black Perspectives on March 16, 2020
Artist's rendering of Cahokia

Ancient Poop Reveals What Happened after the Fall of Cahokia

People hunted and raised small farms near the ruins of the ancient city.
by Kiona N. Smith via Ars Technica on January 29, 2020

The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.
by Joseph M. Adelman via The Junto on January 23, 2020
A microphone surrounded by multiple pairs of eyes against a brick background.

Cut Me Loose

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.
by Joshunda Sanders via Oxford American on November 19, 2019

The Invention of Thanksgiving

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on November 18, 2019

Dead Kennedys in the West: The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco

The new punk generation made the hippies look past their prime.
by Lincoln A. Mitchell via Literary Hub on October 22, 2019
Painting of a building, entitled "Outpost," by Hattie Ruth Miller.

Unsettling Histories of the South

Social movements that have pushed for inclusion and equality in the South have often evaded or ignored the issue of Native land and sovereignty.
by Angela Hudson via Southern Cultures on September 18, 2019
A map of the Kingdom of the Happy Land.

A Black Kingdom in Postbellum Appalachia

The Kingdom of the Happy Land represents just one of many Black placemaking efforts in Appalachia. We must not forget it.
by Danielle Dulken via Scalawag on September 9, 2019
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How School Desegregation Became the Third Rail of Democratic Politics

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.
by Matt Delmont, Jeanne Theoharis via Made By History on July 8, 2019

Here’s Every Defense of the Electoral College — and Why They’re All Wrong

Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.
by Eric Levitz via Intelligencer on March 20, 2019
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