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Colonial Boston’s Civil War

Bostonians refused to be forced to house British soldiers. So the army paid rent to willing landlords, and soldiers’ families settled down all over town.
by Kathleen DuVal via The Wall Street Journal on February 28, 2020

Tremendous in His Wrath

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on December 9, 2019
Enslaved men in chains, from the cover of "Williams' Gang" by Jeff Forret.
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The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think

Enslaved woman Charlotte thought she was "free" from the slaveowner. She was wrong.
by Jeff Forret via HNN on November 24, 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
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It’s Time to Make Election Day a Holiday in Law and Spirit

We need to bring back the celebratory atmosphere that animated Election Day in the 19th century.
by Holly Jackson via Made By History on October 22, 2019

Docking Stations

A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.
by Peter Cole, Arvind Dilawar via The Smart Set on October 7, 2019
Sunrise over Sapelo Island, Georgia.

Before 1619, There Was 1526: The Mystery of the First Enslaved Africans in What Became the United States

Nearly one hundred years before enslaved African arrived in Jamestown, the Spanish brought 100 slaves to the coast of what is now Georgia or South Carolina.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 7, 2019
Photo of Japanese American shops with employees and bicycles in front.

When Police Clamped Down on Southern California’s Japanese-American Bicycling Craze

Because cycling was an important mode of transportation for agricultural workers and a popular competitive sport, police saw it as a way to target immigrants.
by Genevieve Carpio via Zócalo Public Square on August 26, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

Tying Black Resistance to Communism Is a Time-Tested American Tradition

When modern conservatives associate activists of color with communism, they’re drawing on a racist history that goes back over 100 years.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 19, 2019

Racial Terrorism and the Red Summer of 1919

The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on June 19, 2019

Love in The Time of Texas Slavery

The story of a Black woman and a Mexican man who had lived as husband and wife in the 1840s in Texas.
by María Esther Hammack via Not Even Past on June 5, 2019
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These Photo Albums Offer a Rare Glimpse of 19th-Century Boston’s Black Community

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.
by Dana Lorch via Smithsonian on May 29, 2019
Fugitive slave ad taken out by Thomas Jefferson.

Freedom on the Move

A database of fugitives from American Slavery.
via Freedom on the Move Project on February 20, 2019

The Role of Water in African American History

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on May 4, 2018

The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862

While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.
by Jessica Parr via We're History on April 16, 2018

Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?

As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.
by Elizabeth Merritt via American Alliance of Museums on April 3, 2018

Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora

Restoring agency to enslaved people means acknowledging not only that they created marriages, but that they ended them, too.
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on March 31, 2018
Striking miners

A Culture of Resistance

The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
by Chuck Keeney via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 30, 2018

Dred Scott Strains the Mystic Chords

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on March 5, 2018

Ghost Dancers Past and Present

Thinking beyond the dichotomies of oppressor and victim reveals the human urges that inspire so much of our expressive culture.
by Anthony Chaney via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on February 14, 2018

Seeing Martin Luther King as a Human Being

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on January 15, 2018

The Real Refugees of Casablanca

When it came to gathering refugees, the waiting room of the US consulate was probably the closest thing to Rick’s Café Américain.
by Meredith Hindley via Longreads on November 23, 2017

This Is Why You’re Seeing The Confederate Flag Across Europe

It was shocking to see the flag greet Trump in Poland. But Europeans — some of them white supremacist — have waved it for years.
by Christopher Mathias via HuffPost on July 14, 2017

Bureaucrats as Activists: A Revisionist Take on Conservation

Career bureaucrats in the Trump administration are proving that bureaucrats can be dedicated to a cause other than themselves.
by Benjamin Heber Johnson via Process: A Blog for American History on May 23, 2017

What Herman Melville Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.
by Ariel Dorfman via The Nation on May 10, 2017

From Boston's Resistance to an American Revolution

How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.
by Mark Boonshoft via New York Public Library on February 28, 2017

When Antifascism Comes to America

Many compare the rise of "Trumpism" to that of 1930s Fascism. More worthwhile might be an examination of antifascist resistance.
by Joseph M. Fronczak via Process: A Blog for American History on January 12, 2017
A New Orleans parade, with confetti falling on the heads of men dancing in suits.

Sundays in the Streets

The long history of benevolence, self-help, and parades in New Orleans.
by Leslie Parr via Southern Cultures on December 16, 2016
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
Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne wearing a turban.

How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.
by Tanvi Misra via NPR on July 19, 2014
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