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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. -
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Regime Change
A coin featuring the likeness of President Trump doesn’t have many precedents in American history. The ancient Roman opponents of Julius Caesar could explain why. -
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How “History” Became Central at the Supreme Court
Originalists and historians use the past to accomplish very different tasks.
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Museum ReviewBefore 1776
In his indigenous futurist project “Revolt 1680/2180,” artist Virgil Ortiz honors the Pueblo of the past and proposes: “What if that resistance never stopped?”London Review of Books -
ArgumentForgetting the Galveston Movement
The movement is a compelling example of the benefits of immigration — and a model for developing pragmatic responses to nativist restrictionism.Clio and the Contemporary -
CommentHistory Is Back. Fukuyama Is Neither Surprised nor Thrilled.
It is fashionable to mock "The End of History" as an uncritical celebration of neoliberal capitalism, but its analysis of right-wing populism proved prescient.Jacobin -
CommentThe Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy
The effort to disprove Jefferson’s relationship with Hemings took so many leaps of logic and so much ahistorical contortion that one has to wonder–why?Trove -
Book ReviewThe Emptiness of Malcolm Gladwell
The king of the big idea has a problem with facts.UnHerd -
LongreadHow Monopoly Fascism Rose Again
A generation of Americans learned from Nazi Germany that monopolies fuel fascism. It's time we relearned that lesson.Democracy Journal -
exhibitCollege Costs
Historical perspectives on the money that fuels American higher education, and Americans’ attempts to reckon with the power dynamics that result.