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A provocative history of Indigenous America. How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?
In 1932, with the Great Depression underway, President Herbert Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur violently suppressed the Bonus March, a massive encampment of veterans demanding relief, with far-reaching and unforseen consequences.
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Jake Blount walks us through the banjo's history — from West Africa to enslaved people in the US to the early record industry — to explain how Black folk music has evolved.
Du Bois’s mode of analysis in "Black Reconstruction" can help us look past so much of the ephemera of our politics to focus on the roles of power, privilege and, most important, capital in shaping our political order and structuring our conflicts.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 were a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history. Twenty five innocent women, men, and children lost their lives. When confronted with injustice in our lives today, what role will we play?
While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes Native histories and Native people – an important addition to our ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be American.
Recent critiques of “presentism” fail to see that we can’t divorce the past from the present—and that supposedly objective scholarship has long promoted racist narratives and suppressed Black history.
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
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