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Abraham Lincoln

Why We Keep Reinventing Abraham Lincoln

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020

What Trump Is Missing About American History

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

by Leslie M. Harris, Karin Wulf via Politico Magazine on September 20, 2020

Donald Trump in front of Mount Rushmore

Trump’s Vision for American History Education Is a Nightmare

But it’s one historians know all too well.

by L. D. Burnett via Slate on September 18, 2020

How U.S. History Is Taught Has Always Been Political

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 17, 2020

Why Bill Clinton Attacked Stokely Carmichael

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

by Amandla Thomas-Johnson via Jacobin on August 6, 2020

History, Civil Rights and the Original Cancel Culture

The initial movement to build memorials to the Confederacy and its supposed “lost cause” were the original cancel culture.

by Keri Leigh Merritt, Chris Richardson via The Hill on August 4, 2020

Racist Litter

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on July 30, 2020

Ground Zero: The Gettysburg National Military Park, July 4, 2020

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

by Jennifer M. Murray via Muster on July 20, 2020

Why We’ll Never Stop Arguing About Hamilton

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

by Aja Romano via Vox on July 3, 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 political cartoon

The New Deal and Recovery

The first in a series of posts to offer evidence casting doubt on the view that New Deal programs ended the Great Depression.

by George Selgin via Alt-M on June 12, 2020

Is Capitalism Racist?

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 18, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

A War for Settler Colonialism

Refocusing the study of the Civil War on the West shows that events out west were not simply “noteworthy”; they were emblematic.

by Paul Barba via Muster on March 3, 2020

Illustration of Lincoln consulting with military figures in a tent.

Did Lincoln Really Matter?

What the Civil War tells us about who has the power to shape history.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on February 10, 2020

1619 and All That

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

by Alex Lichtenstein via American Historical Review on February 3, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020

Preaching a Conspiracy Theory

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

by Allen C. Guelzo via City Journal on December 8, 2019

Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on December 2, 2019

The Life and Times of Franz Boas

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

by Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2019

An Unfinished Revolution

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on November 21, 2019

The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader

Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.

by Roham Alvandi via Foreign Policy on October 30, 2019

Pictures of people in collage form.

The Center Does Not Hold

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on October 29, 2019

The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.

by T. H. Breen via Literary Hub on September 23, 2019

The Battle to Rewrite Texas History

Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.

by Christopher Hooks via Texas Monthly on September 18, 2019

Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a 'Glorious Liberty Document.'

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

by Timothy Sandefur via Reason on August 21, 2019

A Brief History of the History Wars

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 20, 2019

The Times Are A Changin’

Reports of the death of nuanced interpretations of the Civil War have been grossly exaggerated.

by Nick Sacco via Exploring the Past on July 9, 2019

The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on July 1, 2019

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