Fear and Financial Crisis
February 12, 2020
Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson Jr.— The crisis of 2008 was a classic financial panic, a staple of economic history at least since the Dutch tulip… READ MORE
Category: American History
Frontier Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
February 10, 2020
Karen R. Jones— “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.” This phrase, popularly attributed to Calamity Jane, is… READ MORE
Donald Trump and the Discourse of Lynching
January 30, 2020
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy— Many politicians before Donald Trump have abused decorum, shown bad taste, and wholly misunderstood history when they used the metaphor of lynching to describe whatever political… READ MORE
Lessons from the Civil War for America’s Fractured Present: Part Two
January 28, 2020
Timothy William Waters— Why Remembering the Civil War Matters: Talking about Belonging in America How we remember the Civil War matters for thinking about our increasingly fragile union today—how we… READ MORE
Lessons from the Civil War for America’s Fractured Present: Part One
January 24, 2020
Timothy William Waters— What We (Mis-)Remember about Our Reasons for Fighting America is now so polarized that serious people wonder if the country will hold together. The Atlantic devoted its… READ MORE
Martha Gibbs Was a Southern Woman and a Slave-Master
January 16, 2020
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers— In 1859, after touring the antebellum South, the journalist and New York Tribune editor James Redpath attempted to explain for his readers why white southern women opposed emancipation. He… READ MORE
Dances with Wolves and the Many Abuses of Lakota History
January 7, 2020
Pekka Hämäläinen— The histories of the Lakota people and the United States are intimately and violently linked. The Lakotas almost always seem to be there when American history turns and… READ MORE
Race, Land, and Migration after the Civil War
January 3, 2020
Kendra Taira Field— When Thomas Jefferson Brown finally decided to make his home in Indian Territory in 1870, he had been there many times before. For months he had been… READ MORE
Corn and Colonization
December 5, 2019
Christine M. DeLucia— A kernel of corn, a chunk of quartz. Timothy Alden, Jr., tried to preserve these objects for posterity by donating them in March 1815 to the newly… READ MORE
White Supremacy and Privilege: Legacies of Slavery
November 22, 2019
Richard D. Brown— Everyone reading this enjoys privilege. Some possess athletic or intellectual gifts that set them apart; and those possessing sight, speech, hearing, and physical mobility are privileged. Those… READ MORE
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