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Watching “Watchmen” as a Descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Who should be allowed to profit from depictions of traumatic events in Black history?

by Victor Luckerson via The New Yorker on September 20, 2020

A picture of Bill Russell

Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote

Without justice for all, none of us are free.

by Bill Russell via The Players' Tribune on September 14, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020

How Aztecs Told History

For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices.

by Camilla Townsend via Aeon on August 10, 2020

The Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

"No one story can completely explain Annie."

by Jeet Heer via Literary Hub on August 3, 2020

A Native American community gathers for a powwow

How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic

Native communities in North America have been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19. This isn't the first time.

by S. I. Rosenbaum, Arigon Starr via The Nib on July 29, 2020

Pre-Existing Conditions: Pandemics as History

In times that feel “unprecedented,” it is all the more important to use history as a way to understand the present and chart a path to the future.

by Andy Horowitz via Items on July 9, 2020

Cover of the book These Truths by Jill Lepore.

Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

by George Blaustein via European Journal Of American Studies on June 30, 2020

An artist's rendition of a ghost.

The Indebted Dead

Tracing the history of the Grateful Dead folktale and the evolving obligations of being alive.

by Colin Dickey via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 29, 2020

Broadway New York 1893

Perilous Proceedings

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.

by David Gibson via Library of Congress on June 29, 2020

The Haunting of Drums and Shadows

On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.

by Sam Worley via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 11, 2020

Mark Twain in the Time of Cholera

The disease afflicted the author as he was writing what would become "The Innocents Abroad."

by Johnny Miller via National Review on April 16, 2020

What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About

In the literature of pestilence, the greatest threat isn’t the loss of human life but the loss of what makes us human.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 23, 2020

Hearts and Stomachs

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has come to symbolize an era of muckraking and reform. But its author sought revolution, not regulation.

by Scott McLemee via The Wilson Quarterly on March 22, 2020

I Am a Descendant of James Madison and His Slave

My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’

by Bettye Kearse via Zora on March 17, 2020

The Remembered Past

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.

by Lewis H. Lapham via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2019

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu

To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.

by Deanna Day via Contingent on December 6, 2019

The cover of Cynthia A. Kierner's "Inventing Disaster," which depicts a shipwreck during a storm.

On Inventing Disaster

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.

by Cynthia Kierner, Anna Faison via UNC Press Blog on November 20, 2019

The Invention of Thanksgiving

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on November 18, 2019

My Friend Mister Rogers

I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood.

by Tom Junod via The Atlantic on November 12, 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

Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe.

"Meet John Doe" Shows the Darkness of American Democracy

Frank Capra’s 1941 drama carries forward the populist themes of his other movies, only with a much darker premise.

by Kristin Hunt, Glenn Alan Phelps via JSTOR Daily on October 24, 2019

Story-Shaped Things

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.

by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on October 16, 2019

Historical Fanfiction as Affective History Making

How online fandoms are allowing people to find themselves in the narrative.

by Sarah Calise via Nursing Clio on October 2, 2019

The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to "Peanuts"

How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.

by Chris Ware via The New Yorker on September 24, 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

‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is a Science Fiction Film

Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on August 23, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?

via Contingent on July 1, 2019

Ronald Reagan’s Reel Life

Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.

by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on June 29, 2019

Neil Armstrong and the American flag on the moon.

How NASA Sold The Science And Glamour of Space Travel

At the time of the Apollo 11 landing, some Americans had reservations about reaching for the stars when troubles swelled on Earth.

by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on June 23, 2019

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