Karin Wulf

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, notebooks and newspapers.

We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.

Silence and volume in collections and institutions.

Attribution can make visible the vast infrastructure of research and display how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, it has faciliated.

Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa.

A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.

A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism.

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.

In a new book, historian Nicole Eustace reveals Indigenous calls for meaningful restitution and reconciliation rather than retribution.