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Confronting the Legacy of the Civil War: The Forgotten Front

One thing united the warring factions of the civil war: the doctrine of white supremacy and violence against Indians.

by George Black via The Nation on October 26, 2017

My Great-Great-Grandfather and an American Indian Tragedy

A personal investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

by Michael Allen via The Wall Street Journal on November 24, 2014

Painting of the Sand Creek Massacre by Robert Lindneux, c. 1935.

Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

by Nick Turse via The Intercept on November 28, 2024

Bosque Redondo

Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth About Union Monuments in the West

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

by Megan Kate Nelson via The Atlantic on July 10, 2020

Pilgrims going to church armed with guns.

God and Guns

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.

by Patrick Blanchfield via The Revealer on September 25, 2015

New York, 1929, men pointing to a sign reading "No Booze Sold Here"

Freedom From Liquor

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Aeon on September 6, 2022

Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake.

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

by David Treuer via The Atlantic on April 12, 2021

Screenshot of map showing post offices between 1848 and 1895.

Gossamer Network

An interactive digital history project chronicling how the U.S. Post was the underlying circuitry of western expansion.

by Cameron Blevins, Yan Wu, Steven Braun via Northeastern University on March 31, 2021

Deserted farm road through corn fields.

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020

How to Forget

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

by Sebastian Stockman via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 14, 2019

Red Horse's drawing of American soldiers on horseback

A Lakota Sioux Warrior's Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn

The role of Red Horse's drawings in the historical narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on November 20, 2015

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