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The Young America Movement and the Crisis of Household Politics
In the 19th century, freedom from government interference mapped onto opposition of women's rights.
by
Mark Power Smith
via
The Panorama
on
July 7, 2021
Freedom for Sale
In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde.
by
Fintan O’Toole
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 1, 2021
How America Fractured Into Four Parts
People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?
by
George Packer
via
The Atlantic
on
June 8, 2021
The Strange Undeath of Middlebrow
Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant.
by
Phil Christman
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
March 25, 2021
How Racism and White Supremacy Fueled a Black-Asian Divide in America
After a recent surge in anti-Asian attacks, the narrative quickly turned to hostilities between Black and Asian American communities.
by
Jerusalem Demsas
,
Rachel Ramirez
via
Vox
on
March 16, 2021
The Arch of Injustice
St. Louis seems to define America’s past—but does it offer insight for the future?
by
Steven Hahn
via
Public Books
on
February 16, 2021
Phrenology Is Here to Stay
“Pseudoscience,” race, and American politics.
by
Courtney E. Thompson
via
Medium
on
February 11, 2021
Political Scientist Angie Maxwell on Countering the 'Long Southern Strategy'
For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.
by
Angie Maxwell
,
Benjamin Barber
via
Facing South
on
January 22, 2021
The Limits of Caste
By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.
by
Hazel V. Carby
via
London Review of Books
on
January 21, 2021
The Long Road to White Christians' Trumpism
Any effective soul-searching must take into account the history of white American Christian support for white supremacist power.
by
Elizabeth L. Jemison
via
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
December 8, 2020
How John Rawls Became the Liberal Philosopher of a Conservative Age
With "A Theory Of Justice," Rawls became the most influential political philosopher of his time — just as the liberal agenda he supported was retreating.
by
Katrina Forrester
,
Daniel Finn
via
Jacobin
on
October 4, 2020
The Argument of “Afropessimism”
Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.
by
Vinson Cunningham
via
The New Yorker
on
July 13, 2020
The Nativist Tradition
Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.
by
Joel Suarez
via
Dissent
on
July 6, 2020
Early American Women Unmasked
The masks owned by early American women and even children were no less symbolic than modern masks in terms of practical use, commodification, or controversy.
by
Philippe Halbert
via
The Junto
on
May 5, 2020
Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality
In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.
by
Marshall Steinbaum
via
Boston Review
on
March 25, 2020
The White Heroine Who Legitimized Racial Aggression
White racial violence in America has never been a random collection of individual or unrelated crimes of passion against minorities.
by
Gregory Rodriguez
via
Contra Mundum
on
February 29, 2020
Inventing Freedom
Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.
by
Alejandro de la Fuente
,
Ariela Gross
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
January 21, 2020
Putting Women Back Where They Belong: In Federalism and the U.S. History Survey
Looking to the local level showcases how women claimed their rights in Early America.
by
Laura F. Edwards
via
Muster
on
December 27, 2019
Baby, Christmas Songs Have Always Been Controversial
Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.
by
Neil J. Young
via
The Atlantic
on
December 24, 2018
How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'
Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."
by
Leah Donnella
via
NPR
on
October 31, 2018
Sears’s ‘Radical’ Past
How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow.
by
Antonia Noori Farzan
via
Washington Post
on
October 16, 2018
Sentinel
From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.
by
Francesca Lidia Viano
via
Places Journal
on
October 1, 2018
The Rape Culture of the 1980s, Explained by Sixteen Candles
The beloved romantic comedy’s date rape scene provides important context for the Brett Kavanaugh accusations.
by
Constance Grady
via
Vox
on
September 27, 2018
What Can We Learn From Utopians of the Past?
Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side.
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
July 30, 2018
Agency, Order and Sport in the Age of Trump
Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.
by
Andrew McGregor
via
Public Seminar
on
July 18, 2018
How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery
In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.
by
Elizabeth L. Jemison
,
Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
June 27, 2018
White Tribe Rising
What accounts for white tribalism?
by
James McWilliams
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
June 21, 2018
The Enlightenment’s Dark Side
How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.
by
Jamelle Bouie
via
Slate
on
June 5, 2018
Bias Training at Starbucks Is a Reminder That the History of Racism Is About Who Belongs Where
A central component of the history of racism is the intersection in which geography and race collide.
by
Arica L. Coleman
via
TIME
on
May 29, 2018
The Untold Story of Ordinary Black Southerners’ Litigation During the Jim Crow Era
Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.
by
Melissa Milewski
via
OUPblog
on
March 27, 2018
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