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The Price of Plenty: How Beef Changed America

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.
by Joshua Specht via The Guardian on May 7, 2019

The Price of Meat

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on May 7, 2019

The "Beneficial Exercise" of Walking the Trail of Tears

An examination of the excuses used to justify Andrew Jackson's violent expulsion of the Cherokee from their ancestral lands.
by John F. Ptak via JF Ptak Science Books on May 5, 2019

The Forgotten History of How Abraham Lincoln Helped Rig the Senate for Republicans

The Great Emancipator has a lesson for today's Democrats about how to play constitutional hardball.
by Ian Millhiser via Think Progress on May 5, 2019
Still from a video game animation of a Black cowboy aiming a pistol at another.

‘Old Town Road’ and the History of Black Cowboys in America

A songwriter-historian weighs in on the controversy over Lil Nas X’s country-trap hit.
by Dom Flemons, Jonathan Bernstein via Rolling Stone on April 5, 2019

The Alamo Is a Rupture

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.
by Raúl A. Ramos via Guernica on February 19, 2019
Landscape shot of Los Angeles, with Hollywoodland sign in the background.

True West: Searching for the Familiar in Early Photos of L.A. and San Francisco

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on February 13, 2019
Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019
Aerial view of a fortress in Puerto Rico.

Telling the History of the U.S. Through Its Territories

“How to Hide an Empire,” explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48.
by Daniel Immerwahr, Anna Diamond via Smithsonian on January 1, 2019

U.S. Population Growth by State (1900-2017)

The population of every state, visualized like a horse race.
via Digg on November 20, 2018

The Surprising History (and Future) of Dinosaurs

For well over a hundred years, paleontology has done double duty as mass entertainment.
by Chantel Tattoli via The Paris Review on September 28, 2018

The City Born in a Day

The bizarre origin story of the surprisingly exceptional Oklahoma City, in a government-sanctioned raid called the Land Run.
by Sam Anderson via Intelligencer on August 17, 2018

How the Log Cabin Became an American Symbol

We have the Swedes and William Henry Harrison to thank for the popularization of the log cabin.
by Andrew Belonsky via Mental Floss on April 19, 2018

A History of the Jerks: Bodily Exercises and the Great Revival

A digital archive of first-person accounts from the turn of the 19th century chronicling an unusual display of religious ecstasy.
by Douglas Winiarski via University of Richmond on April 9, 2018
Willa Cather

Willa Cather, Pioneer

Willa Cather's life and work broke with the standards of her time.
by Jane Smiley via The Paris Review on February 27, 2018
A Japanese woodblock illustration of America, with a group of Americans observing hot air balloons in flight.

Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Adena Barnette via Digital Public Library of America on February 22, 2018
Harper's Weekly illustration titled "The Negro Exodus -- the Old Style and the New," depicting a fugitive slave and exodusters traveling west.

Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Samantha Gibson via Digital Public Library of America on February 21, 2018
Poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show reenactment of Custer's last stand.

The Indians Win

Why have Americans been obsessed with this one loss rather than dozens of victories?
via National Museum Of The American Indian on February 19, 2018

Without Haiti, the United States Would, in Fact, Be a Shithole

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.
by Amy Wilentz via The Nation on January 12, 2018

On Monuments and Public Lands

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.
by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on September 15, 2017
Independence Day Celebration in Centre Square by John Lewis Krimmel (1787–1821).

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 via Smithsonian on July 17, 2017

Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on July 3, 2017
Soldiers pose with a human skull.

The Violence Is the Victory

The history of American expansion can be traced through the severed body parts left in its wake.
by Jessie Kindig via n+1 on May 31, 2017
U.S. soldiers in the Civil War.

Expanding the Slaveocracy

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
by Eric Foner, Matthew Karp via Jacobin on March 21, 2017
Screenshot from "The Oregon Trail" computer game

The Forgotten History of 'The Oregon Trail,' As Told By Its Creators

You must always caulk the wagon. Never ford the river.
by Paul Dillenberger, Bill Heinemann, Don Rawitsch, Kevin Wong via Vice on February 15, 2017

Land and The Roots of African-American Poverty

Land redistribution could have served as the primary means of reparations for former slaves. Instead, it did exactly the opposite.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Aeon on March 11, 2016
Red Horse's drawing of American soldiers on horseback

A Lakota Sioux Warrior's Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn

The role of Red Horse's drawings in the historical narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on November 20, 2015
Crowds of people surrounding the General Land Office and accompanying tents

Hail to the Pencil Pusher

American bureaucracy's long and useful history.
by Mike Konczal via Boston Review on September 21, 2015

What Was the Confederate Flag Doing in Cuba, Vietnam, and Iraq?

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on July 7, 2015

3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on July 2, 2015
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