Capital Punishment and the Battle for America’s Soul
In 1976, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan welcomed the news that after a ten-year moratorium, executions…
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The Politics of Statehood in Hawai‘i and the Urgency of Non-Statist Decolonization
As I reflect on the 60th anniversary of the United States claiming the Hawaiian Islands…
Statehood and Other Events: Whales, Alaska Natives, and Perspectives on History
Alaska has been a state for just sixty years. The political events by which the…
Histories of Capital Punishment in the United States
In late July, Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume…
The Cuatro Gatos That Never Were The People’s Voices and the New Puerto Rico
El pueblo habló … — Pedro Roselló Shortly before midnight on July 24, 2019, the…
Performing the Past (and Present and Future) The Social Life of Anniversaries
This piece originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of The American Historian. For more…
Y2K: An American Crisis
As clocks reached 12:00 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1999, in a cascade beginning in the…
Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the…
On Heartbeats, Abolitionists, and Abortion Bans
When Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri passed their restrictive abortion laws this month, many were outraged.…
Histories of Abortion in the United States
Over the past decade, lawmakers in several states have introduced bills that would prohibit abortions…