Remembering Race in Virginia
On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia…
Browsing: Anniversary
The End of Three Mile Island
On September 20th of this year, the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit One nuclear power…
“Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?”
In the United States, a nation full of monuments to fallen soldiers, there are few…
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…
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…
Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipation Celebrations Since 1808
Freedom celebrations are essential to understanding the history, culture, and politics of African Americans. Emancipations…
Can the Petro Industry Learn the Lessons of the Exxon Valdez?
March 24 marks the 30th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William…