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American Indian woman wearing a shirt that reads "You are on Indian land."
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The Ambivalent History of Indigenous Citizenship

A century ago, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, key questions about Native sovereignty were left unresolved.
by Daniel R. Mandell via Made By History on October 14, 2024
The Puerto Rican flag outside the Governor's residence in San Juan.
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The Catch-22 of Puerto Rico's Status Referendum

When Puerto Ricans go to the polls, they can express their choice for several status options for the island.
by Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus via Made By History on October 11, 2024
A portrait of Major Ridge, an older Cherokee man.
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Revealed Through a Mountain of Paperwork

As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.
by Rebecca Nagle via HNN on September 24, 2024
A political cartoon depicting Brighma Young walking in front of a group of his wives, the majority of whom are depicted as non-white.
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The Sovereignty of the Latter-day Saints

Less about morality than about rights, the Mormon War of 1858 hinged on the issue of polygamy, pitting a Utah community against federal authorities.
by Katie McBride Moench via JSTOR Daily on August 28, 2024
A statue of Woodrow Wilson standing next to a bald eagle in Prague.

A Statue in Prague, Four Presidents, and the Meaning of American Democracy

The histories of the U.S. and Czechia are linked by multiple presidents of both countries.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on July 10, 2024
President Bill Clinton addresses crowd at Waikiki.

An Unrelinquished Claim and Vested Interest

A conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. apology to the Hawaiian people.
by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, John David Waihe'e III via Process: A Blog for American History on March 28, 2024
Jean-Jacques Dessalines

The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti

What 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.
by Leslie M. Alexander via Public Books on January 11, 2024
The Confederate States Almanac
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On Harvests and Histories

Almanacs from the Civil War era reveal how two sides of an embattled nation used data from the natural world to legitimize their claims to statehood.
by Teresa A. Goddu, Jill Spivey Caddell, Khalid Salim Isma'El, A. R. George, T. J. Tomlin via JSTOR Daily on January 3, 2024
Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat shake hands at the White House

A Brief History of Peace Talks, Israel & the Palestinians

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?
by Zachary Foster via Palestine, In Your Inbox on December 29, 2023
Anwar El-Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin after the Camp David Accords.
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Jimmy Carter and the Israel-Hamas War

How America's failures in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis of the 1970s hurt U.S. security and contributed to the current war.
by Benjamin V. Allison via Made By History on November 17, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer.

For Oppenheimer, a World Government Was the Only Way to Save Us From Ourselves

Might a world republic provide humanity with the tools to address the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of mass extermination?
by Jane Shevtsov, Tad Daley via Common Dreams on August 14, 2023
Southwestern Indian drawing of people at work.

Saline Survivance: The Life of Salt and the Limits of Colonization in the Southwest

Once highly valuable, salt affords a new look at life, environment, and sovereignty in the southwest borderlands.
by Annabel LaBrecque via Commonplace on July 18, 2023
Family photo.
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In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a Law Stands Guard

For generations, Native American children were removed from their homes and placed with white families.
via Retro Report on July 13, 2023
Justice Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas Wants to Demolish Indian Law

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.
by Matt Ford via The New Republic on June 23, 2023
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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The Supreme Court Stopped the Latest Assault on Native American Sovereignty

A long history of disrespect, dispossession and mass slaughter is crucial to understanding the case.
by Angus McLeod via Made By History on June 16, 2023
Migrants in line for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, barbed wire in the foreground.
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Biden’s Border Policies Target Haitians. That’s No Accident.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.
by Leslie M. Alexander via Made By History on May 11, 2023
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1958

Another Side of W.E.B. Du Bois

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.
by Adom Getachew, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jennifer Pitts via The Nation on May 10, 2023
Ned Blackhawk and his book "The Rediscovery of America."

Ned Blackhawk Wants to Unmake the U.S. Origin Story

Professor Blackhawk’s new volume attempts to put Native peoples’ stories at the center of the history of the United States.
by Ned Blackhawk, Rhoda Feng via Mother Jones on April 24, 2023
Abraham Lincoln, sitting.

Lincoln and Democracy

Lincoln's understanding of the preconditions for genuine democracy, and of its necessity, were rooted in this rich soil. And with his help, ours could be, too.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Affairs on April 20, 2023
An English revolutionary takes the crown off of the head of the dead King Charles I.

What Happens When You Kill Your King

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 17, 2023
A hammer is shown breaking several chunks of the earth into smaller pieces. In the background, black space.

The Wonderful Death of a State

For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.
by Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on April 4, 2023
The North American Trust Company building in Havana, Cuba.

The Imperial Fed

Colonial currencies and the pan-American origins of the dollar system.
by Nic Johnson via Phenomenal World on March 30, 2023
A window through which an otherwise black and white leaf can be seen with a rainbow.

Native American Histories Show Rebuilding is Possible — and Necessary — After Catastrophe

What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.
by B. L. Blanchard via Vox on March 24, 2023
A painting of the American Founders at the Constitutional Convention.

Inventing American Constitutionalism

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.
by Gordon S. Wood, Brian A. Smith via Law & Liberty on March 10, 2023
American Indians hold rifles during the standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973.

A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation.
by Dennis Zotigh via Smithsonian on February 27, 2023
Five globes shaped like human faces, connected by threads.

It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”

Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who came first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the idea escape its colonial past?
by Manvir Singh via The New Yorker on February 20, 2023
Painting of the US army entering the city of Guadalupe Hildaglo
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Annotated

Signed February 2, 1848, the treaty compelled Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, bringing more than 525,000 square miles under US sovereignty.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on February 2, 2023
Image of Black Seminoles Plenty Payne, Billy July, Ben July, Dembo Factor, Ben Wilson, John July, William Shields.

The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty

Louis Fatio seized an opportunity to recount his version of his life—a story that had been distorted and used by white Americans for various political purposes.
by Caroline Wood Newhall via Black Perspectives on January 31, 2023
Lili’uokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1917.

The 1893 Hawaiian Coup and the Realities of American Expansion

To most 21st century Americans, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. But how that paradise became part of the United States is a long, complex, and often dark story.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on January 17, 2023
Two Choctaw men

Choctaw Confederates

Some Native Americans chose to fight for the Southern cause.
by Fay A. Yarbrough via Humanities on January 11, 2023
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