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Our Commemoration of the Civil War’s End Celebrates a Myth
The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.
by
Jamelle Bouie
via
Slate
on
April 14, 2015
The U.S. Confiscated Half a Billion Dollars in Private Property During WWI
America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.
by
Daniel A. Gross
via
Smithsonian
on
July 28, 2014
The History of the Filibuster
In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.
by
Sarah Binder
via
Brookings
on
April 22, 2010
All You Need Is Love
The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.
by
Ronald Steel
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 22, 2006
Chocolate City
Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.
by
Kaitlyn Greenidge
via
What It Is I Think I'm Doing
on
August 14, 2025
Trump Is Hamiltonian, Not Jacksonian
He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”
by
Francis P. Sempa
via
Modern Age
on
July 10, 2025
One Brief Shining Moment
Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.
by
Adam Hochschild
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 11, 2025
What America Means to Latin Americans
In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.
by
Geraldo Cadava
via
The New Yorker
on
April 23, 2025
A Warning for Democrats From the Gilded Age and the 1896 Election
Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
by
Adam M. Silver
via
The Conversation
on
April 22, 2025
The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."
by
Greg Grandin
,
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
via
The Nation
on
April 21, 2025
What Is the Alien Enemies Act?
Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
April 14, 2025
Worse Than Signalgate
Accidentally sharing attack plans in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.
by
Timothy W. Ryback
via
The Atlantic
on
April 11, 2025
America Was at Its Trumpiest 100 Years Ago. Here’s How to Prevent the Worst.
During World War I, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.
by
Adam Hochschild
via
Washington Post
on
April 3, 2025
This Is America
Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.
by
Daniel Bessner
via
Jacobin
on
March 27, 2025
The Man Who Believed in Nothing - Part II
Spencerism in America.
by
Henry Snow
via
Another Way
on
March 4, 2025
The Island Nation Whose History Reflects America’s
Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States.
by
Danielle Amir Jackson
via
The Atlantic
on
February 27, 2025
How Allies Have Helped the US Gain Independence, Defend Freedom and Keep the Peace
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.
by
Donald Heflin
via
The Conversation
on
February 20, 2025
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Origins of the UN: The US and USSR
The genesis of the United Nations came from the nations united as Allies against the Axis powers, but who really pushed the institution into being?
by
Stephen Wertheim
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Matthew Wills
,
Geoffrey Roberts
via
JSTOR Daily
on
February 9, 2025
History Warns Us About Cabinet Members Like RFK Jr.
If RFK is confirmed, he is likely to fail for reasons similar to those for past political choices for the cabinet.
by
Dan McLaughlin
via
The New Republic
on
February 8, 2025
The Reckless Creation of Whiteness
How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.
by
Erin L. Thompson
via
The Nation
on
January 29, 2025
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