George Floyd and the End of American Hegemony
An “I can’t breathe” sign in London’s Trafalgar Square. The hashtag #PapuanLivesMatter in Indonesia. Monuments…
Browsing: Public History
Toppling Columbus, Recasting Italian Americans
In response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter demonstrators…
“Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?”
In the United States, a nation full of monuments to fallen soldiers, there are few…
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…
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…
Including LGBTQ Americans in Our Nation’s Heritage
National parks share the wonderfully rich and diverse heritage of America. Our parks represent the…
Reparation as Fantasy Remembering the Black-Fisted Silent Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games
On October 17, 2005, San Jose State University unveiled a twenty-foot fiberglass statue of Tommie…
National Coming Out Day
Photo by MarceloMedia. Creative Commons license. Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day. October…
Recontextualizing the Ocean Blue Italian Americans and the Commemoration of Columbus
Maledetto Cristoforo Colombo e quando ha scoperto l’America. (Damn Christopher Columbus and his discovery of…
From the archives… America enters World War I
On April 6, 1917, the United States formally entered World War I, joining France, Russia,…