Current Events that Relate to History
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Argument
Historians Killing History
The driving question of scholarship should be “what is the evidence for your argument?” Instead, it has become “whose side are you on?”Liberties Journal -
Book Excerpt
How a Group of Revolutionary Anti-Racist Activists Planned to Fight the Klan in North Carolina
Remembering the lead-up to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre.Literary Hub -
Origin Story
The Father of the Party System
Because Martin Van Buren was an unsuccessful president, his more significant contributions to the nation’s political life have also been obscured.OUPblog -
Book Review
The Historical Seeds of Horror in "American Scary"
Jeremy Dauber's new book explores the themes and origins of the American horror genre.Chicago Review Of Books -
Film Review
Straight Shooter
"Henry Fonda for President" more than makes the case for Fonda’s centrality in the American imaginary.Art Forum -
First Person
My Street Looks Different Now: Oral History and the Anti-Redlining Movement
For residents, organizers, and onlookers, neighborhoods can be a window for witnessing and making sense of history.The Metropole -
exhibit
America's Pastime
Histories of big league baseball, from the achievements of the players to the culture of the stands to the stories and traditions we pass down.
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut. -
Regency Sex Ed
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?