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Columbus and crew landing boat at San Salvador
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1492: Columbus in American Memory

Columbus Day is here again -- along with the controversy over its namesake. How have earlier generations understood him?
via BackStory on October 10, 2014

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.
by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic on June 19, 2013
Illustration of angry communist with caption "Primer for Free Men."

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill

History books are rewritten to focus on the underdog. Surely that is a victory for the common people...or is it?
by Stephen Duncombe via The Baffler on January 13, 2013

How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success

It's worth remembering that the now-controversial holiday started as a way to empower immigrants and celebrate American diversity.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on October 8, 2012
Drawings of George Washington

His Highness

George Washington scales new heights.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on September 20, 2010
A frayed and torn American flag flying on a flag pole.

Farewell, the American Century

Rewriting the past by adding in what's been left out.
by Andrew J. Bacevich, Tom Engelhardt via Tom Dispatch on April 28, 2009
Alexander Hamilton.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on November 1, 2007
Sketch of tobacco cultivation at Jamestown.

The Other Founding

A review of two books exploring the importance and legacy of the founding of the English colony at Jamestown.
by Alan Taylor via The New Republic on September 24, 2007
French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne, in 1915.

Rethinking the War to End All Wars

For the players in the First World War, the goal was not to prevail but to avoid being seen as the loser.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 16, 2004
“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” an 1885 parody of an 1850 painting by Charles Lucy.

Thankstaking

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?
by Jane Kamensky via Commonplace on January 1, 2001
The date "1619" bolded against a gray background.

Engaging The 1619 Project

A collection of resources challenging the notion that the U.S. was built on nothing but injustice and subjugation.
via RealClearPublicAffairs
Collage photographs related to the January 6 Capitol Riot.

‘This Is Not a Peaceful Protest!’

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.
by Tom Dreisbach, Barbara Van Woerkom via NPR on January 4, 2026
Ken Burns

No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation

The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman.
by Dan McLaughlin via National Review on November 22, 2025
Governor-General John Kerr speaking to reporters.

Fifty Years Ago, the US Staged a Coup in Australia

In 1975, Australia’s PM Whitlam was dismissed by Governor-General Kerr in a US-influenced, Cold War–era soft coup.
by Guy Rundle via Jacobin on November 12, 2025
Portraits of Henry James and John Singer Sargent.

What Is an American Hero, Anyway?

Lists of great artists say more about the list-maker than the artist.
by Jessa Crispin via The American Scholar on October 24, 2025
John Brown stands armed, positioned before Union and Confederate people fighting amid smoke and devastation.

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail)

Reflections on Harper's Ferry amid a government shutdown.
by Robert S. Levine via Literary Hub on October 10, 2025
Donald Trump speaking to U.S. Navy sailors.

Trump: The US Lost Vietnam and Afghanistan Due to Woke

Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by dehumanization and destruction.
by Ben Burgis via Jacobin on October 9, 2025
A cassette copy of the film soundtrack for "Until the End of the World."

The Last Time I Rewound

VHS, Star Wars, and the freedom to remember.
by Nic Hoffmann via Tropics of Meta on September 30, 2025
The Wikipedia logo surrounded by a wide variety of images from the encyclopedia.

Wikipedia Is Under Attack — and How It Can Survive

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
by Josh Dzieza via The Verge on September 4, 2025
An abolitionist lithograph depicting enslaved people celebrating the Fourth of July while a white judge sits on bales of cotton with his feet on the Constitution, 1840

The Contradictory Revolution

Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.
by David S. Reynolds via New York Review of Books on July 31, 2025
South Korean soldiers walking through a trench of dead bodies.

The Moral Distortions of the Official Korean War Narrative

June 25 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. But the truth is that the US was a willing partner in mass murder across the peninsula.
by Grace M. Cho via The Nation on June 24, 2025
Conservative protesters hold signs and flags at a Tea Party protest.

Lone Star Futures

Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has also been a place where those liberties end.
by Emma Pask via Public Books on June 19, 2025
Charles Horman

Chile in Their Hearts, and Ours

The untold story behind the killings of two Americans by the Chilean military after the coup.
by Peter Kornbluh via NACLA on May 23, 2025

Nottoway Dishonored My Enslaved Ancestors. Why I Still Hated to See it Destroyed.

Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.
by Michael W. Twitty via MSNBC on May 21, 2025
General Ulysses S. Grant receiving Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
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Appomattox Exposes the Dangers of Myths Replacing History

Historians have revealed that the story Americans long learned about the end of the Civil War was a myth.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on April 9, 2025
English looking at the word "croatoan" carved in a tree.

The Lingering Mystery of the 'Lost Colony' of Roanoke

From historians to horror writers to white nationalists, attempts to explain the settlement's fate reveal a great deal about our own attitudes.
by Colin Dickey via Atlas Obscura on April 2, 2025
Book cover of "Squanto: A Native Odyssey" by Andrew Lipman.

Squanto: A Native Odyssey

A new biography tells a far more complex, nuanced, and, frankly, interesting historical episode than that depicted in the typical grade-school pageant.
by Lincoln Paine via A Sea Of Words on March 4, 2025
1860 political cartoon depicting Lincoln as a "Wide-Awake"
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A Posthumous Romance of White Male Reunion

The history of deriving political meaning from Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality.
by Andrew Donnelly via HNN on February 11, 2025
Gerald Ford signs Richard Nixon's pardon, superimposed over a smiling Nixon.

Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on February 11, 2025

What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

The White House’s decision to delete a DOJ database of Jan. 6 cases puts those who seek to preserve the historical record in opposition to their own government.
by Alec MacGillis via ProPublica on February 6, 2025
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