American History

Steve Inskeep: The Rise and Fall of American Adventurer and Politician John Frémont

The Author of Imperfect Union Answers a Few Questions from Lit Hub

 
By Literary Hub  January 14, 2020
American History

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

By David Zucchino  January 9, 2020
American History

Bringing Hitler’s Hidden Army to Justice

By Debbie Cenziper  December 16, 2019
American History

Meet a Bad Man Who Became
a Truly Great Spy

By Owen Matthews  December 16, 2019
American History

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America

By Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall  December 12, 2019
American History

How William Monroe Trotter Mobilized Black Americans Across Class Lines

By Kerri K Greenidge  November 26, 2019
American History

Piecing Together the Lives
of Enslaved Americans

By Rachel May  November 21, 2019
American History

On the Missing History at New York’s Battleship Intrepid Museum

By James W. Loewen  November 13, 2019
American History

On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar  November 8, 2019
American History

How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

By Sherrod Brown  November 5, 2019
American History

When a Hurricane Hits the Delaware Bay

By Andrew S. Lewis  October 9, 2019
American History

The Midcentury Battle to Save America’s Cities from Crisis

By Lizabeth Cohen  October 8, 2019
American History

The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

By T. H. Breen  September 23, 2019
American History

Discovering America’s Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

By Darren Dochuk  June 17, 2019
American History

5 Undersung Moments in History You Probably Didn’t Learn About in Class

By Christopher Klein  June 7, 2019
American History

Antony DeCurtis on the Instruments Behind Iconic Rock ‘n’ Roll Moments

By Anthony DeCurtis  June 5, 2019
American History

The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History

By Tyler Mills  June 5, 2019
American History

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

By Jill Lepore  June 4, 2019
American History

Inside San Francisco’s Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900

By Julia Flynn Siler  May 15, 2019
American History

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

By Susan Ware  May 13, 2019
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