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People raising their fists and gathered around the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia

Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause

A whole vision of history seems to be leaving the stage.
by David W. Blight via The New Yorker on July 1, 2020
Black women hold signs in support of ratifying the ERA in Virginia.
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From Women’s Suffrage to the ERA, a Century-Long Push for Equality

The Equal Rights Amendment sparked debate from its very beginning, even among many of the women who had worked together for suffrage.
via Retro Report on June 11, 2020
John Tyler.

Two on John Tyler: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!

After the Whig president’s shocking death, his vice president and successor proved to be a Whig by expedience only
by Richard Norton Smith via The Wall Street Journal on June 5, 2020

Death Can’t Take the Stories Our Elders Pass On

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.
by Nelson George via Medium on April 21, 2020
Trump at a press conference.
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Covid-19 Needs Federal Leadership, Not Authoritarianism from Trump

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.
by Grace Mallon via Made By History on April 14, 2020

The Loser King

Failing upward with Oliver North.
by Matt Hanson via The Baffler on March 10, 2020

Experiential History

Can experiencing elements of what is was like in the past make us better historians?
by Tyler Rudd Putman via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on February 10, 2020

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 29, 2019

Slavery's Explosive Growth, in Charts: How '20 and Odd' Became Millions

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.
via USA Today on August 22, 2019
Revolutionary War reenactment.

The Second-Amendment Case for Gun Control

It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.
by Saul Cornell via The New Republic on August 4, 2019

This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian Magazine on June 18, 2019

James Madison Understood Religious Freedom Better than Jefferson Did

One emphasized the freedom to think; the other, in effect, the freedom to pray.
by Steven Waldman via National Review on May 20, 2019
George Washington is depicted in the 1856 painting "George Washington Addressing the Constitutional Convention" by Junius Brutus Stearns.

‘The President Himself May Be Guilty’: Why Pardons Were Hotly Debated By The Founding Fathers

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.
by Erick Trickey via Retropolis on April 21, 2019

The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on February 13, 2019
Black and white image of Alice Paul, broadcasting from her desk at the Capitol, 1923.

Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on November 26, 2018
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; painting by Henry Inman, 1832.

Hail to the Chief

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”
by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on November 22, 2018

At 63, I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee

I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.
by Stanley A. McChrystal via The Atlantic on October 23, 2018

United Daughters of the Confederacy & White Supremacy

In an open letter, an encyclopedia editor stands behind the use of the term "white supremacy" to describe the UDC's work.
by Brendan Wolfe via Encyclopedia Virginia on August 30, 2018
Drawing of two laborers in a vast agricultural field with a farmhouse in the background.

A Family From High Plains

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by Nick Martin via Splinter on August 2, 2018
James Armistead.

How an Enslaved Man-Turned-Spy Helped Secure Victory at the Battle of Yorktown

James Armistead was an enslaved man who provided critical intel to the Continental Army as a double agent during the Revolutionary War.
by Thaddeus Morgan via HISTORY on April 23, 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

Presidents and Mass Shootings

How Consoler-in-Chiefs respond to senseless gun violence.
by Tevi Troy via National Affairs on April 1, 2018

America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude

It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.
by Ariel Ron, Dael Norwood via The Atlantic on March 28, 2018
A sculpture depicting George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta staring at each other.

‘Our Father, the President’

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.
by Susan Dunn via New York Review of Books on March 15, 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

What America Gets Wrong About Three Important Words in the Second Amendment

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."
by Robyn Pennacchia via Quartz on February 24, 2018

Paul Manafort, American Hustler

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on January 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 via Philly.com on January 24, 2018
U.S. government medical marijuana crop at University of Mississippi.
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Jeff Sessions is a Hypocrite on States’ Rights. But So is Everyone Else.

Champions of states' rights love federal power when it suits their goals — like Sessions's anti-marijuana crusade.
by Benjamin E. Park via Made By History on January 10, 2018
"Slave Ship" painting (1840) by J M W Turner. Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Does Locke’s Entanglement With Slavery Undermine His Philosophy?

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?
by Holly Brewer via Aeon on December 12, 2017
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