New perspectives on how history is made
In 1876, Porfirio Díaz successfully deposed the Mexican government. He couldn’t have done it without the help of powerful Americans.
A trove of letters-to-the-editor from the early 1900s show how Arturo Schomburg viewed newspapers as a bulwark against white supremacy throughout the Americas.
On the United States’ 150th birthday, Calvin Coolidge said that the country’s work was done. Not everyone agreed.
The Superbowl LX halftime show tapped into a 200-year old tradition of elevating hemisphere over nation in the struggle against imperial rule.
But not because the founders wanted to see more guns in the hands of Americans.
The high-stakes struggle to make women’s history visible to all Americans.
In the 1830s, college students protested slavery. Many colleges and elites wanted them to stop.
A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson.
By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.
How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”
How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America.
What are we to make of the sapphic love depicted in early fiction and photography?
Contrary to the story being told in textbooks, media, and museums, the police were not neutral bystanders.
In the interwar period, a British media magnate set out to convince voters to stop worrying and love protectionism.
The Metropolitan Police Department in DC has been an essential component of Washington politics since its founding.
What happened after West Texas State College desegregated its football team in the 1960s.
Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.
How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.
Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.
In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.
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