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The National Anthem Was a 19th-Century Meme
Like many patriotic songs of its time, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ was created by fitting a popular tune with topical new lyrics.
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Mark Clague
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The Wall Street Journal
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June 11, 2022
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Ukraine Shows We Need to Learn the History of Peace Movements to Break The Habit of War
When the war in Ukraine finally ends, will we take peace organizations and peace movements more seriously?
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Charles F. Howlett
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HNN
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March 13, 2022
Remembering Black Hawk
A history of imperial forgetting.
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David R. Roediger
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Boston Review
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March 1, 2022
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Talk of Secession Always Gets U.S. History Wrong
Americans have always been deeply divided.
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Alan Taylor
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Made By History
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May 11, 2021
Is the US Capitol a 'Temple of Democracy'? Its Authoritarian Architecture Suggests Otherwise
The neoclassical building was inspired by European shrines to imperial power.
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Megan Goldman-Petri
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The Conversation
on
February 8, 2021
He Became the Nation’s Ninth Vice President. She Was His Enslaved Wife.
Her name was Julia Chinn.
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Ronald G. Shafer
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Washington Post
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February 7, 2021
Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World
Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.
by
Rachel Himes
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Jacobin
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February 4, 2021
The Long Roots of Endless War
A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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The Nation
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November 30, 2020
A Quest to Discover America’s First Science-Fiction Writer
It’s been two hundred years since America’s first sci-fi novel was published. But who wrote it?
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Paul Collins
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The New Yorker
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November 28, 2020
Knives Out
‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.
by
Sanford Schwartz
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New York Review of Books
on
November 5, 2020
The Country That Was Built to Fall Apart
Why secession, separatism, and disunion are the most American of values.
by
Richard Kreitner
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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August 15, 2020
A New Hamilton Book Looks to Reclaim His Vision for the Left
In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.
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Ryan Grim
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The Intercept
on
August 4, 2020
Cancer Alley
A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.
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Monique Michelle Verdin
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Southern Cultures
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August 1, 2020
Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?
We haven’t built many memorials to panics, recessions, or depressions, but maybe we should.
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Jessica Lepler
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Process: A Blog for American History
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June 30, 2020
George Washington Would Have So Worn a Mask
The father of the country was a team player who had no interest in displays of hyper-masculinity.
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Maurizio Valsania
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The Conversation
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June 1, 2020
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The Founders Knew That Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections was Dangerous
The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.
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Jordan E. Taylor
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Made By History
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October 7, 2019
Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)
Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents and Daniel Boone.
by
Adam Green
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The Public Domain Review
on
September 10, 2019
Fifty Years Ago, Hendrix’s Woodstock Anthem Expressed the Hopes and Fears of a Nation
It also inspired my own scholarship on the national anthem.
by
Mark Clague
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The Conversation
on
August 14, 2019
It Isn’t Independence Day For Everyone
If the British had won the Revolutionary War, things might be very different for Native Americans.
by
Steve Teare
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The Nib
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July 4, 2019
In Its First Decades, The United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers
Education for women and emerging nationhood, illustrated with care and charm.
by
Sarah Laskow
via
Atlas Obscura
on
November 28, 2018
'I'm Feeling Bad About America'
The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.
by
J. W. McCormack
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The Baffler
on
November 1, 2018
Congress Handed to the President the Power to Level Tariffs
A republic needs a legislature that can handle such tasks. We don’t have one.
by
Jay Cost
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National Review
on
March 5, 2018
Slaves and Sailors in the Civil War
The enlistment of black soldiers in the Union Army is well-known, but their Navy counterparts played an integral role, too.
by
Dwight Hughes
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Emerging Civil War
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February 28, 2018
Medical Mystery: James Madison's Sudden Collapse
The Father of the U.S. Constitution fought a life-long physical battle, too.
by
Allan B. Schwartz
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Philly.com
on
January 24, 2018
Disarming the NRA
The Second Amendment does not stand in the way of better gun laws; the NRA does.
by
Adam Winkler
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New York Review of Books
on
October 5, 2017
The Two Andrew Jacksons
Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.
by
Michael Kazin
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The Nation
on
August 10, 2017
The Brief Period, 200 Years Ago, When American Politics Was Full of “Good Feelings”
James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.
by
Erick Trickey
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Smithsonian
on
July 17, 2017
The Revival of John Quincy Adams
The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.
by
David Waldstreicher
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The Atlantic
on
July 11, 2017
Trump's Jacksonian Moment
A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.
by
Richard White
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Boston Review
on
June 7, 2017
The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr
The fate of Aaron Burr's daughter remains a topic of contention.
by
Hadley Meares
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Atlas Obscura
on
October 7, 2016
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