Black and White in the Free State of Jones
I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of…
Browsing: Commentary
Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…
The Paradox of Gun History
I recently completed a book on the history of the gun industry, culture, and the…
Teaching the Pulse Massacre
The tragic shooting at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, requires that we look…
Obama in Hiroshima: A Mandate for Looking Back
On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting U.S.…
Money Makes History: Harriet Tubman and the Face Value of U.S. Currency
“Who is Harriet Tubman?” This was the most popular Google search on April 20, 2016,…
Black Lives (and) Matter: George Zimmerman’s Gun and Artifacts of Racial Violence in American History
On May 11, 2016, Florida man George Zimmerman put the handgun he used to kill…
The Historical Foundations of Abundance
Historians are so obsessed with discerning or making new “turns” these days that it may…
Between Memory and History: U.S.-Cuba Rapprochement in a Time of Remembrance
[From the May issue of The American Historian] Louis A. Pérez Jr. is the J. Carlyle…
March Went Mad Gradually and Inadvertently
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Samuel Walker is co-author, with Randy Roberts, of When…