American History

The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

Anne Sebba Reads the Rosenbergs of Plath, Doctorow, Kushner and More

 
By Anne Sebba  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
American History

Can the Fragile American Union Survive This Election?

By Richard Kreitner  August 19, 2020
American History

Even When Records Fall Short, Black History Must Be Told

By Morgan Jerkins  August 5, 2020
American History

How White Supremacists Used Mardi Gras to Enforce Racial Division

By Edward Ball  August 4, 2020
American History

Tear Them Down:
Siri Hustvedt on Old Statues, Bad Science, and Ideas That Just Won’t Die

By Siri Hustvedt  July 8, 2020
American History

America Wasn’t a Nation At Its Founding, It Was a Means
to an End

By Colin Woodard  June 24, 2020
American History

On the Anniversary of the Murder of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth

By Edward Achorn  April 14, 2020
American History

Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

By Serena Zabin  February 20, 2020
American History

On John Brown and the Rise of the Radical Republican Abolitionists

By LeeAnna Keith  January 16, 2020
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