American History

Lincoln’s Dictatorship: How the President Broke the Constitutional Compact in Order to Save It

Noah Feldman on the Rupture That Predated the Emancipation Proclamation

 
By Noah Feldman  November 12, 2021
American History

Lessons Not Yet Learned: How Post-Civil War Reconstruction Never Ended

By Eric Foner  September 17, 2021
American History

“Americans Are Bad at History.” At the Fault Lines of Memory and Propaganda

By Patrick Nathan  August 19, 2021
American History

The Overlooked Story of Two Women in the Southampton Slave Rebellion

By Vanessa M. Holden  July 27, 2021
American History

How Vaudeville Told the Story of America… to Americans

By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  July 22, 2021
American History

What Makes America a Nation? (And If It Isn’t, What Could?)

By George Packer  July 2, 2021
American History

On Meriwether Lewis’ Understudied Journey Through the Blackfoot Valley

By John N. Maclean  June 15, 2021
American History

The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

By Anne Sebba  June 8, 2021
American History

The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull

By Emily Midorikawa  May 20, 2021
American History

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

By Ken Ellingwood  May 6, 2021
American History

One of the Most Important American Documents You’ve Never Heard Of

By Nicole Eustace  April 29, 2021
American History

Secrets and Lies in the Early Days of the Klondike Gold Rush

By Brian Castner  April 19, 2021
American History

How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold
Rush Women

By Brian Castner  April 13, 2021
American History

A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

By Jan Jarboe Russell  March 30, 2021
American History

Judgement Day at America’s First Blockbuster Murder Trial

By Tobey Pearl  March 16, 2021
American History

In the Mississippi Woods Where the Southern Myth Ends

By W. Ralph Eubanks  March 16, 2021
American History

Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

By Christine Leigh Heyrman  February 10, 2021
American History

Barbara Lee on What Shirley Chisholm Gave America

By Rep. Barbara Lee  January 29, 2021
American History

Remembering Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster

By Joyce Maynard  January 28, 2021
American History

Silencing Ida B. Wells Was
Never Going to Happen

By Michelle Duster  January 27, 2021
American History

Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

By Horace Julian Bond  January 15, 2021
American History

On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

By James Oakes  January 13, 2021
American History

Isabel Wilkerson on the Legacies of American Chattel Slavery

By Isabel Wilkerson  November 30, 2020
American History

The ‘Race’ Question: Where Henry Adams Lacked
Moral Insight

By David S. Brown  November 25, 2020
American History

The Making of the Reagan Generation

By Rick Perlstein  August 28, 2020
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