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George Washington Would Have So Worn a Mask

The father of the country was a team player who had no interest in displays of hyper-masculinity.
by Maurizio Valsania via The Conversation on June 1, 2020

The Trouble with Comparisons

Comparison to Nazism and fascism distracts us from how we made Trump over decades.
by Samuel Moyn via New York Review of Books on May 19, 2020

FDR’s New Deal Worked. We Need Another One.

Claims that the programs adopted in the 1930s lengthened the Great Depression don’t hold up.
by Noah Smith via Bloomberg on May 15, 2020
Graffito picture of Richard Nixon superimposed on lines an German text.

Richard Nixon, Modular Man

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.
by Phil Christman via The Hedgehog Review on April 6, 2020

A New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.
by Amy Crawford via Smithsonian on January 1, 2020
Drawing of Puritans.

How Should We Remember the Puritans?

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.
by Andrew Delbanco via The Nation on November 18, 2019
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Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future

In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on November 3, 2019

Whiteout

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.
by Kevin Baker via Harper’s on November 1, 2019
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How Oscar Micheaux Challenged the Racism of Early Hollywood

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like "The Birth of a Nation."
by Anna Siomopoulos, Kristin Hunt, Richard Grupenhoff via JSTOR Daily on October 3, 2019
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Lines in the Sand

Ed Ayers visits with public historians in Texas and explores what's wrong with remembering the Alamo as the beginning of Texas history.
via Future Of America's Past on August 15, 2019

Against the Great Man Theory of Historians

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jacobin on June 12, 2019
Lithograph of the Reconstruction-era Black Senators and Congressmen.

How the South Won the Civil War

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 1, 2019
Francis Fukuyama

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?
by Maximillian Alvarez via Boston Review on March 22, 2019
1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 2018

The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.
by Carlos Kevin Blanton via Texas Monthly on September 21, 2018

The Issue on the Table: Is 'Hamilton' Good for History?

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.
by Kate Keller via Smithsonian on May 30, 2018

What America Gets Wrong About Three Important Words in the Second Amendment

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."
by Robyn Pennacchia via Quartz on February 24, 2018

How White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest's Mysterious Mounds

Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.
by Sarah E. Baires via Zócalo Public Square on February 22, 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

Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The Paris Review on January 15, 2018

The South Only Embraced States' Rights as It Lost Control of the Federal Government

For decades, slaveholders were powerfully committed to the Union. That changed when Washington stopped protecting their interests.
by W. Caleb McDaniel via The Atlantic on November 1, 2017

Our Cold War World

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on October 30, 2017
Reagan signing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.
by Vesla M. Weaver via Boston Review on October 24, 2017

Five Types of Gun Laws the Founding Fathers Loved

A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.
by Saul Cornell via The Conversation on October 15, 2017

The American Revolution Revisited

A nation divided, even at birth.
via The Economist on June 29, 2017

Confederate or Not, Which Monuments Should Stay or Go? We Asked, You Answered.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.
via Washington Post on June 6, 2017

How the ‘Hamilton Effect’ Distorts the Founders

Too often, we look to history not to understand it, but to seek out confirmation for our preexisting beliefs. That’s a problem.
by Mike Lee via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017
A painting of Bob Dylan playing his guitar.

Think Twice

Unreleased tracks show an alternate Dylan: not the folky bard of the standard biographies, but the hippest young blues singer in Greenwich Village.
by Elijah Wald via Oxford American on December 13, 2016

What Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Understand About Slavery

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 28, 2016

Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.

An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.
by Annette Gordon-Reed, Richard Kreitner, Peter S. Onuf via Boston Review on May 19, 2016
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