Shorts
There’s More Than One Answer
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[Always read the footnotes.]
Features
A Known and Unknown War
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Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
Shorts
Dellwood: An Elegy for My Cat
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I’m an animal historian — I know the dog always dies in the end.
Features
The Salieri Rumor and Why Gossip Matters
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It didn’t take long for Salieri’s story to become almost completely removed from his music.
A Thing Of The Past
The Persian Rug
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Still in her concentration camp uniform, Olga found her Persian rug.
A Thing Of The Past
The Second Skeleton
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Museums construct knowledge by constructing objects—literally.
Shorts
A Special Memorialized State
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Facebook was assigning me a place in the past, a place for the dead.
Shorts
On The Road With The WPA
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Pick any stretch of road and you can find along it a history of the nation.
Reviews
The Plague Is Not Over
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Twenty-five years ago, straight Americans were ready to call an end to the AIDS pandemic. But for Sarah Schulman, it has never receded.
Personal Pan Histories
Personal Pan Histories: Turnips
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“For my family, boiled turnips became a reminder of my grandmother’s suffering.”
Personal Pan Histories
Personal Pan Histories: Wilbur Buds
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It was the only dark chocolate my grandmother liked.
Personal Pan Histories
Personal Pan Histories: Instant Coffee
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I suppose it really is addiction. But I’ve quit most of the other fun ones.
Personal Pan Histories
Personal Pan Histories: պանիրով հած
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It might be a simple dish, yet it’s one I hold close to my heart—and a symbol, for me, of the Armenian immigrant experience.
Shorts
The Strange World of AP U.S. History
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Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?
Field Trip
The Desert Keeps Receipts
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We are immersed in a landscape of risk, a damaged place that damages in return.
Postcards
Stumbling Stones
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Somewhat to my surprise, I didn’t go to my field’s major conference last November. Instead I accompanied a 97-year-old man to the town he fled in 1938.
Shorts
I’ve Never Seen Anything
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How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?
Features
Death to the Ewoks
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Though the genocidal event isn’t canon, many fans apparently wish it was.
Shorts
From A Certain Point Of View
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By denying access to the original cuts of the saga films, George Lucas has left us without the critical cultural documents needed for understanding the franchise’s power.
Features
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu
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To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
Field Trip
How Kelsey Utne Does History
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This is the first in a new series on how historians—especially contingent historians and those employed outside of tenure-track academia—do the work of history.
Features
From #TakeEmDown to #TakeEmOn
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She led the movement against Memphis’s Confederate monuments, and now she’s running for mayor. An interview with Tami Sawyer.
Field Trip
The Archive after the Revolution
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They meant to remake the world, and they left quite the paper trail.
Shorts
“No One’s Ever Really Gone”
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It is easy to forget, even for historians, that the future does not exist.