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Map of the British Empire in North America

Mapping the End of Empire

Mapping offered geographers and their readers an opportunity to understand and influence how empires transitioned into something else.

by Jeffers Lennox via Borealia: Early Canadian History on October 7, 2018

Text of Medicine Creek Treaty.

Medicine Creek, the Treaty That Set the Stage for Standing Rock

The Fish Wars of the 1960s led to an affirmation of Native American rights.

by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on June 9, 2017

Vintage advertisment for Indian Land on sale, by the U.S. Department of the Interior

Universalizing Settler Liberty

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.

by Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh via Jacobin on August 4, 2014

Mrs. Roosevelt's Revolution

In the wake of the Second World War, Eleanor Roosevelt seized the moment and gave lasting life to the idea of universal human rights.

by Brian Urquhart via New York Review of Books on April 26, 2001

A photograph of Henry A. Crabb.

Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald

A Californian politician's disastrous expedition to seize Mexican land, and how newspapers spun the story.

by Diana Lindsay via San Diego History Center on January 1, 1973

Texas Declaration of Independence

Texas Declaration of Independence

A spotlight on a primary source.

via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on March 2, 1836

Image of the Preamble: We The People

On Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation

People continue to interpret the U.S. Constitution in different ways. One way is an originalist framework that favors the Founding Father's intent in 1787.

by Steven Calabresi via The National Constitution Center

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