Current Events that Relate to History

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her descent into bigotry.

Railroad photography helped sell an “empty” American West—carefully framing out the people already living there.

Antiwar movements succeed through broad, focused mass action, not sectarian rhetoric or liberal compromise, using Vietnam-era lessons for today.

Long a marker of gender inequality, women turned pockets into a feminist demand.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.