In Solidarity—And Sometimes, In Tandem
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What is possible when white activists heed the call of the Black radical vanguard.
Revive Your Darlings
The Castle on the Hill
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“We asked for Central High School but they think it is too good for us.”
Field Trip
No Gloves Required
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Historians are well aware that a good old map invites curiosity and connection.
Mailbag
Why Do Archivists Get Rid Of Things (And Enjoy It)?
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Just because something is cool doesn’t mean it belongs in an archive.
Field Trip
Edward Guimont’s “From Outer Space”
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The Hills’ aliens wore clothing and spoke English—albeit with an unspecified “foreign accent.”
How I Do History
How Allison Horrocks Does History
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“. . . if a wide brimmed Stetson gets us going, I’m content to start there.”
How I Do History
How Steven D. Booth Does History
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“Archival work involves building relationships.”
Features
The Strange Case of Booker T. Washington’s Birthday
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If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?
How I Do History
How Aimee Loiselle Does History
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An unexpected job opportunity launched seven years of adjunct teaching and rekindled Aimee Loiselle’s interest in scholarly history.
Shorts
Where Is Dorsey Foultz?
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When the D.C. Metropolitan Police failed to catch a murder suspect, white residents criticized and mocked. Black residents worried.
Shorts
What About The Bad Job Offers?
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After finishing a doctoral program, the goal for many has always been a tenure-track job offer. But what about really terrible offers?
Field Trip
How Camille Bethune-Brown Does History
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A chance internship helped Camille Bethune-Brown find her career.
Features
The White Background
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The SHEAR controversy has only exposed structural problems within the wider historical profession.
How I Do History
How Kate Shuster Does History
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Through her work at SPLC, Kate Shuster helps educators teach hard histories.
In Search of Black Europe
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Johny Pitts’s travelogue is a counter to historical narratives that erase the black European experience.
Archives & Museums
How Jennifer Garcon Does History
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“There’s so much experimentation and innovation happening in libraries” and Jennifer Garcon is right in the thick of it.
Features
An Interrupted Journey
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In 1908, Canada tried to deport the South Asian population of Vancouver. But the community stood its ground and won.
Field Trip
When John Brown’s Body Is Wax
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What better place to think about authenticity than a wax museum?
Shorts
The Pitfalls of Fandom for Women of Color
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What happens if we demystify fandom as a haven for female desire?
Features
A Little More Knowledge Lights Our Way
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Who gets to take meaning from things and have that meaning-making respected and valued?
Shorts
Far, Far Away?
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The line between cultural influence and cultural appropriation can be blurry.
Shorts
Who Was Tank Kee?
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He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.
Shorts
Roads by Other Names
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Renaming streets and erecting statues aren’t nothing—but they aren’t enough, either.
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.
Reviews
What Happened to My People
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The second half of PBS’s Reconstruction documentary begins where the traditional narrative ends.
Reviews
A Usable History of Reconstruction
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The greatest strength of the new PBS documentary is its desire to inform contemporary debates. But this may also be one of its weaknesses.
Field Trip
The Circus Hitler Said He Loved
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Simultaneously beloved and despised by the Nazi regime, their stories are now being uncovered by a team of researchers.
Features
Hunting Dinosaurs in Central Africa
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Before ancient aliens—before Lizard People—there was the search for living dinosaurs.
Shorts
Selling Angola
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It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. So who is going to its gift shop, and why?
Features
War Happens in Dark Places, Too
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In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time.