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Illustration of Crazy Horse

How Would Crazy Horse See His Legacy?

Perhaps no Native American is more admired for military acumen than the Lakota leader. But is that how he wanted to be remembered?
by Pekka Hämäläinen via Smithsonian on November 2, 2022
A photo of three young girls smiling seated around a table with dolls next to them.

Reading Disability History Back into American Girl

The author's personal history with the dolls, and an argument for American Girl to make a new doll with a disability.
by Marissa Spear via Nursing Clio on November 1, 2022
William Barber III standing in front of Vera Brown Farm.

Rebuilding the Homestead

How Black landowners in eastern North Carolina are recovering generational wealth lost to industry encroachment.
by Cameron Oglesby via The Margin on October 25, 2022
A crowd of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of an internment camp.
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How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning

An admission of wrongdoing from the U.S. government came later, but a Supreme Court ruling had lasting impact.
via Retro Report on October 18, 2022
Black and white image of workmen standing on or outside of a train.

Riding with Du Bois

Railroads—in the Jim Crow South just as in today’s Ukraine—employ physical infrastructure to create racial divisions.
by Manu Karuka via Public Books on October 18, 2022
Illustration of a fist smashing a tiny blue academic building.

The 50-Year War on Higher Education

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 14, 2022
Photograph of Pauli Murray mural.

How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board

Without Murray’s intense commitment to the freedom struggle, the more famous civil rights leaders would not have had the successes they did.
by Tejai Beulah Howard via Black Perspectives on October 13, 2022
An 1886 illustration of a cowboy and cow camp.

When Texas Cowboys Fought Private Property

When cattle barons carved up Texas with barbed wire in the late 19th century, cowboys formed fence-cutting gangs to preserve the open range.
by David Griscom via Jacobin on October 4, 2022
Trumpet vine in Bayou Bienvenue. An orange-red flower held in someone's hand.

Living Freedom Through the Maroon Landscape

Swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves in Louisiana offer a model to cope with climate disruption.
by Diane Jones Allen via Places Journal on September 22, 2022
Image of the 1970 protest against an unfair dismissal of a teacher in Uvalde.

The Uvalde Student Walkout and the Texas Rangers

Uvalde's current protests against gun control mirror those of student protests in the early 1970s.
by Caroline Lauber via Refusing To Forget on September 7, 2022
Bad Bunny performs for the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.

Bad Bunny and the Political History of Reggaeton

The genre is the product of migration, rebirth, and the struggle to be heard.
by Catherine Osborn via Foreign Policy on September 2, 2022
Disinfection plant at Santa Fe Street International Bridge

From Bath Riots to Blocking Asylum

Public heath and race at the US-Mexico border.
by Arabella Delgado via Perspectives on History on August 15, 2022
2 African American women in front of a mural of trade ships and a Black pianist on ocean waves.

Slave Money Paved the Streets. Now This Posh RI City Strives to Teach Its Past.

Many don’t realize Newport, Rhode Island launched more slave trading voyages than anywhere else in North America.
by Asher Lehrer-Small via The 74 on July 20, 2022
Actress Bobby Bradshaw is tempted by a pearl necklace, 1925.
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Pearl Jam

In the twentieth century, the mollusk-produced gem was a must have for members of WASP gentility. In the twenty-first century, its appeal is far more inclusive.
by Hillary Waterman via JSTOR Daily on June 8, 2022
Emma Goldman's mugshot in 1901.

Reading Red Emma: A Critique of Liberal Democracy in America

Emma Goldman’s opposition to the American government poses an interesting question for our modern democracy: is there room for radical dissent?
by Kollin Fields via SHGAPE Blog on May 31, 2022
Picture of two warring sides of the abortion debate in a heated exchange.

The Myth That Roe Broke America

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 18, 2022
The Rikers Island docks.

The Long Crisis on Rikers Island

A new book about Rikers Island is essentially a labor history, revealing how jail guards seized control from managers, politicians, and judges.
by Brendan O'Connor via The Baffler on May 12, 2022
A Denmark Vesey monument is seen in Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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The Formerly Enslaved Man Whose Faith Inspired a Slave Revolt

Denmark Vesey expressed the Bible’s anti-slavery messages.
by Jeremy Schipper via Made By History on April 7, 2022
Robot with group of people at poker table

The Automation Myth

To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?
by Clinton Williamson via The Baffler on April 6, 2022
1827 Finley Map of the Western Hemisphere

Land that Could Become Water

Dreams of Central America in the era of the Erie Canal.
by Jessica Lepler via Commonplace on April 5, 2022
Flowers and signs laid out at a makeshift memorial for the March 19th Georgia shooting.
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Teaching Asian American History in its Complexity Can Help Fight Racism

Asian Americans have been both the victims and perpetrators of racial discrimination.
by Kathryn Gin Lum via Made By History on March 15, 2022
Masked Japanese Internment Camp Prisoner

Ask a Historian: Did Japanese Americans Have Access to Vaccines in WWII Incarceration Camps?

Shibutani, Haruo Najima, and Tomika Shibutani reported that the vaccination lines stretched as long as 200 yards. “The conditions were atrocious.”
by Brian Niiya via Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment on March 9, 2022
Drapery of a soldier displayed in a barren field.

The Economic Weapon

The fate of the League of Nations provides a stark warning about using sanctions as a tool of modern warfare.
by Nicholas Mulder via New Statesman on March 3, 2022
Photograph of horse and buggy carrying Black family migrating North

A Brief History of the Great Migration, when 6 Million Black People Left the South

The Great Migration in the 20th century changed the face of America. For the past few decades, it's been reversing.
by Jalyn Henderson via NBCLX on February 28, 2022
Tracy Ehlert, a substitute teacher, in a classroom
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Today’s Teacher Shortages are Part of a Longer Pattern

Until school boards and administrators listen to teachers, they’ll end up with shortages in every crisis.
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz via Made By History on November 18, 2021
Print announcement for Florida CB personality "Bow Weevil," featuring a photo of a Black man's face on a drawing of a bowl weevil holding a microphone.
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How Black CB Radio Users Created an Audible Community

CB radio was portrayed as a mostly white enthusiasm in its heyday, but Black CB users were active as early as 1959.
by Ashawnta Jackson, Art M. Blake, Tyler Watts, Jared Barton via JSTOR Daily on November 18, 2021
Team photo of the Pacesetters in their uniforms.

How One Women’s Football Team Took Control Away From the Men

The Columbus Pacesetters weren’t satisfied being an afterthought or a gimmick, so they bought their franchise and the ability to make decisions for themselves.
by Britni de la Cretaz, Lyndsey D'Arcangelo via Sports Illustrated on October 29, 2021
Sketch of Maxie Shackelford looking tough.

Confessions of a Loan Shark

One of the last survivors of Boston’s Gangland War of the 1960s opens up about his notorious past.
by Springs Toledo via City Journal on October 7, 2021

The South’s Resistance to Vaccination Is Not As Incomprehensible As It Seems

The psychological forces driving “red COVID” have deep historical roots.
by Angie Maxwell, Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 1, 2021
African American man teaching a boy to swim in a swimming pool.
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Black Swimmers Overcome Racism and Fear, Reclaiming a Tradition

Today, drowning rates are disproportionately high among Black children. What’s being done?
by Brandon Alexander via Retro Report on September 1, 2021
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