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Black man standing beside barbecue stand, Pittsburgh 1933.

Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle

Historian Adam Lee Cilli effectively illustrates the centrality of Black Pittsburgh within the larger Black Freedom Struggle.
by Ashley Everson via Black Perspectives on February 9, 2023
The United States flag flying above that of Guam.

Trapped by Empire

The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options have substantial downsides.
by Van Jackson via Dissent on February 8, 2023
John Winthrop.

When Perry Miller Invented America

In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.
by Ed Simon via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 5, 2023
Painting of soldiers on the front.

How They Paid for the War

In World War II, the US had a planned economy. Its principles were similar to MMT.
by Sam Levey via Strange Matters on January 27, 2023
Ken Burns speaking into a microphone.

Shaming Americans

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.
by Amity Shlaes via City Journal on January 9, 2023
Douglas R. Stringfellow reading a statement before the press.

The Congressman Who ‘Embellished’ His Résumé Long Before George Santos

In the 1950's, Rep. Douglas Stringfellow was a promising young congressman with an incredible World War II story. Then the truth came out.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on December 29, 2022
Painting of a city surrendering to Napoleon.

Uses & Abuses of Military History

On the value of the discipline and its applications.
by Victor Davis Hanson via The New Criterion on December 23, 2022
Police officer Lane Anderson removes a Patriotic Front sticker from a stoplight outside the Liberian Restaurant in downtown Fargo, N.D.
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The Shared U.S.-Liberia History Now Shaping a North Dakota Community

Liberians in West Fargo trying to dodge racism are deeply woven into American history.
by Karen Masterson via Made By History on December 16, 2022
Adolf Hitler with high-ranking Nazi officers during Operation Barbarossa, the failed offensive against the Soviet Union, 7 August 1941.

Geopolitics is a Loser’s Buzzword with a Contagious Idea

The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.
by Harold James via Aeon on December 1, 2022
Charlie Brown and his friends at a store with a Christmas sale.

When Christmas Started Creeping

Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?
by Bill Black via Contingent on November 8, 2022
Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender

Reading Langston Hughes’s Wartime Reporting From the Spanish Civil War

Several years before the United States officially entered World War II, Black Americans were tracking the international spread of fascism.
by Matt Delmont via Literary Hub on November 2, 2022
Royal Fusiliers War Memorial, 2011. Photograph by Robert Scarth.

Monuments with Mission Creep

On “all wars” memorials.
by Andrew M. Shanken via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 26, 2022
A crowd of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of an internment camp.
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How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning

An admission of wrongdoing from the U.S. government came later, but a Supreme Court ruling had lasting impact.
via Retro Report on October 18, 2022
Black and white photo of Woody Guthrie holding a guitar labeled "this machine kills fascists"

I've Got Those Old Talking-Blues Blues Again

The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on October 13, 2022
Black and white photo of a crop duster releasing DDT spray over a forest.
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The History of DDT Shows Government Agencies Have Responsibility for Today's Skepticism about Science

Our government institutions, and especially our scientific ones, have a duty to rebuild the public trust that has eroded over the last half century.
by Elena Conis via HNN on September 25, 2022
Illustration of a 1950s woman surrounded by orange flames, pink background

Reading Betty Friedan After the Fall of Roe

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.
by Tis Lyz via Men Yell At Me on September 21, 2022
Crowds of people filling Ellis Island Immigration Station

Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.
by James McAuley via The New Yorker on September 18, 2022
Collage of documents and photographs relating to Younghill Kang.

Younghill Kang Is Missing

How an Asian American literary pioneer fell into obscurity.
by Esther Kim via Asian American Writers' Workshop on September 7, 2022
Black and white photo of World War II soldiers pointing at a Malaria poster urging soldiers to keep their skin covered.

How a Malaria Scare at the Start of World War II Gave Rise to the CDC

The Office of Malaria Control in War Areas sought to curb malaria transmission in the United States.
by Becky Little via HISTORY on August 31, 2022
Picture of the apartment buildings within Co-op City sit along the banks of the Hutchinson River in the Bronx.
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Could Cooperative Housing Solve Today’s Affordability Crisis?

Housing costs are skyrocketing. History offers a path forward.
by Annemarie Sammartino via Made By History on August 24, 2022
Painting of a stylized explosion and the silhouettes of African American soldiers.

A Deadly World War II Explosion Sparked Black Soldiers to Fight for Equal Treatment

After the deadliest home-front disaster of the war, African Americans throughout the military took action to transform the nation's armed forces.
by Matt Delmont via Smithsonian on August 24, 2022
Photo of officer candidates of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps start off their day with a calisthenics drill wearing fatigue uniforms at Fort Des Moines on Aug. 8, 1942. (AP)
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The Military Has Long Had Ties With The Fashion Industry

The new Army bra is the latest chapter in a longtime partnership.
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox via Made By History on August 22, 2022

The Last American Aristocrat

George Kennan made hierarchy seem seductive.
by Phil Klay via UnHerd on August 12, 2022
A woman wearing a winter coat and a mask walks outside the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., January 2022.

How the System Was Rigged

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.
by Branko Milanović via Foreign Affairs on June 21, 2022
illustration including "Napalm Girl" photo and photo of the photographer

The View from Here

Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?
by Errol Morris via Air Mail on June 4, 2022
When Tom Cruise starred in Top Gun in 1986, it wasn’t just a box office bonanza — it was a boon to the US military. Paramount Pictures

Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Love Story

For the Pentagon, films like "Top Gun: Maverick" are more than just a movie.
by Alissa Wilkinson via Vox on May 27, 2022
An American soldier guards a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., on May 23, 1943.
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Is it Possible to Condemn One Empire Without Upholding Another?

The danger of making wars into moral crusades.
by Moon-Ho Jung via Made By History on May 22, 2022
Crowd gathers at the Memorial Amphitheater, circa 1920-1950.

Flowers of Remembrance Day: Inaugurating a New Tradition at Arlington National Cemetery

Decorating graves with flowers, from a Civil War grassroots ritual of remembrance to a national tradition honoring all military dead.
by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on May 20, 2022
Man holding bible outside Capitol with Trump supporters
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Christian Nationalism Is Surging. It Wasn’t Inevitable.

How the decline of liberal religion transformed American Christianity — and politics.
by Gene Zubovich via Made By History on May 6, 2022
Town council leader and lawyer Khalid Salman by the graves of his sister and her children, who were among the twenty-four Iraqi civilians killed by US Marines in the 2005 Haditha massacre, Haditha, Iraq, 2011.

Our Hypocrisy on War Crimes

The US’s history of evasiveness around wartime atrocities undermines the very institution that could bring Putin to justice: the International Criminal Court.
by Fintan O’Toole via New York Review of Books on May 5, 2022
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