New perspectives on how history is made
Her new book, "The Slave's Cause," rewrites the history of abolitionism.
The story begins way back in the 1930s (not the 1970s as is usually supposed).
At least we’re no longer hiding her statue in the Capitol basement.
A clue is offered in an article published in The Nation about a century ago.
Including a few peddled by one Donald J. Trump.
But why did we go to war with Nazi Germany? Few recall FDR’s explanation. We should.
His real estate background isn’t helping him govern.
It’s this giant monument to Stephen A. Douglas.
Back then black and white reading tastes were very similar and very middlebrow.
How this newspaperman became a historian.
This is what history suggests.
The wise man was Llewellyn Thompson. This is what he thought would help us prevail.
It’s now being seen as a bourgeois revolution.
It’s time for a methodological revolution.
How a biographer used digital archives to uncover the secret past of Lucy Parsons.
The media lumps Emory’s Patrick Allitt in with climate change deniers, but his position is more nuanced.
History tells us why.
"I don’t have a pithy saying, but I do tell my students that I think the past should be both familiar and strange."
It’s a story from history that shows the danger of self-serving memos cut to fit the fashion of those in power.
That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed when defending Trump from charges he neglected the island because he’s racist. Here’s the backstory.
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