“North America’s reactionary revolutionaries insisted that they spoke for the people — or at least for their true interests and the common welfare. They feared that the people’s voice would prove them wrong.” www.hnn.us/article/torn...

“The history books on anti-queer military policy represent a story of missed chances, of people who elected not to speak up and systems of discrimination that persisted when not enough people pushed back against them.” www.hnn.us/article/comi...

“If someone clicks away from Clio and ends up buying a book about a topic they just discovered, that’s a win.” www.hnn.us/article/star...

If historians and librarians designed the technology of our era, how might “smart” devices work to make us smarter and more connected? www.hnn.us/article/star...

In “Memoirs of a Nobody,” Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy. www.hnn.us/article/henr...

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.” www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

“In a world where AI can generate essay responses, this kind of project-based learning has been refreshing. And in a world where so many start with an answer and then select evidence to support that conclusion, Clio encourages students to start with a question.” www.hnn.us/article/star...

I've used Clio for some great teaching exercises - highly recommend for those interested in mapping the past or cool forms of public history.

Read @davidtrowbridge.bsky.social on Clio.

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

🗃️ We’re kicking off a new series today on public history. www.hnn.us/article/star...

“Her body was identified by a charred slipper lying beneath it.” Where did this detail come from? As a budding scholar who has learned to be very meticulous with my citations, I was surprised and confused by the lack of a paper trail. www.hnn.us/article/if-t...

A. Philip Randolph Lambasts the Old Crowd. A reading from “The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937.” @princetonupress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/a-ph...

A charred slipper is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed. www.hnn.us/article/if-t...

Amidst the widespread fallout from the 2024 presidential election, it hardly registered as news when Alabama’s state education board proposed new social studies standards for the first time in 14 years. www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

Between 1929 and 1939 approximately half a million Mexicans left the United States. Many of the departing families included American-born children to whom Mexico, not the United States, was the foreign land. www.hnn.us/article/scar...

“A superstitious observer with knowledge of the desk’s full history might wonder if any of them would have used the Resolute Desk had they known of its link with failure and death.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.” www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

In “Memoirs of a Nobody,” Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy. www.hnn.us/article/henr...

“At Howard, and wherever else a critical mass of students from Africa and the Black diaspora outside of the United States gathered, something else important began to occur: a sharing of experiences of exploitation and suffering under imperial rule.” www.hnn.us/article/a-po...

The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave. www.hnn.us/article/life... Read an excerpt from @benchansfield.bsky.social’s “Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City.”

Read an excerpt from “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide” by @hofrench.bsky.social. @liveright.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/a-po...

🧊 Quite a story of the failures that lie behind the President's Resolute Desk. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

“Of those who have relied upon it, 3 have been assassinated & 2 others suffered assassination attempts. 2 were impeached, 1 suffered a debilitating stroke in office, 1 suffered from dementia & died never remembering being president & half a dozen lost bids for a new term.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...

“Constitutional republic” is a term of wildly conflicting connotations. It was unknown in the founding era but is used by some to urge the importance of fealty to the framers’ original principles. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/a-re...

Comparing the dueling versions of history found in Gothic fiction. www.hnn.us/article/fram...

“How could the toll from the fires have been so colossal and its source so opaque?” www.hnn.us/article/life...

My latest @myhnn.bsky.social series installment looks at versions of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's original, Alasdair Gray's Poor Things, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, + the future-proof industry of movies such as the new Netflix adaptation starring Oscar Isaac as Dr F. tinyurl.com/mw99au3

The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave. www.hnn.us/article/life...

Before you watch Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Frankenstein, read @emmagarman.bsky.social on Frankenstein, found documents, and history. www.hnn.us/article/fram...

Amid the fallout from the 2024 election, it hardly registered as news when Alabama’s education board proposed new social studies standards for the first time in 14 years. Few observers seemed to realize that profoundly undemocratic language was buried in the fine print. www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

On the women who helped make — and keep making — the Bayeux Tapestry. www.hnn.us/article/text...

The long history of trying to make “constitutional republic’ happen. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/a-re...

Fascinating and frightening on the campaign to remove the word “democracy” from school curricula www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/a-re...

My latest on the Right’s covert campaign to indoctrinate children onto believing the USA is not a democracy, nor should it be. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/a-re...

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.” www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings. www.hnn.us/article/scra...

For well over a century, many American leaders have prioritized efficiency over values like stability, fairness, security, and responsible stewardship of the world we’ve inherited. This tradition reflects a fundamentally extractive approach to government. www.hnn.us/article/how-...

"Although all historians are shaped by the moments in which we write, we first learn how to look at the world historically through the eyes of scholars shaped by an earlier moment." @gabrielwinant.bsky.social delivers some thoughtful historiography here www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

The legacy of failure behind the Resolute Desk. www.hnn.us/article/the-...

Thank you @myhnn.bsky.social for featuring this except from Chapter 7, “Founders on Foundings” from my book _Lineage_ about the many forms of genealogy’s power in early America.

A superstitious observer with knowledge of the desk’s full history might wonder if any of them would have used the Resolute Desk had they known of its link with failure and death. www.hnn.us/article/the-...

“It is more challenging to locate a founding father who was not interested in his own family’s founding than one who was.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...

🗃️ The dark history behind the Resolute Desk. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

“Trump’s effort to manipulate the federal infrastructure of historical knowledge is a reminder that the past is a site of constant political contestation — and that the public must be vigilant and insistent that our archives are managed toward democratic ends.” www.hnn.us/article/scra...

How the “obstetrical dilemma” and the dark history of pelvimetry met in the present. www.hnn.us/article/pelv...

“Situating Musk’s post in this tradition of dehumanizing and pathologizing birthing people’s bodies also gives us an occasion to redefine the phrase ‘obstetric dilemma’: not as an evolutionary conflict of the human anatomy but as a man-made, historical conflict.” www.hnn.us/article/pelv...

“It began with a party.” www.hnn.us/article/a-gh...

How the “obstetrical dilemma” and the dark history of pelvimetry met in the present. www.hnn.us/article/pelv...

JD Vance is tapping a corrosive tradition of nativism that runs through much of American history. But the specific history that Vance is invoking in this case runs directly counter to the anti-immigrant argument he is attempting to make. www.hnn.us/article/elev...