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The Art of Writing History
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. -
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Where Lies the Revolutionary Soldier?
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, historians and archaeologists are working to recover the names of those who fought for independence.
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LongreadJim Crow Was on the Ash Heap of History. Then Came the Roberts Court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.Mother Jones -
Media CriticismBleeding Kansas, Bleeding Again
Kansas football's Bleeding Kansas video and the long habit of using the Civil War to settle scores.Civil War Memory -
Book ReviewSnow Globe Palimpsest
A new book delivers biographical sketches of Jews who refused to abandon the Diaspora.Los Angeles Review of Books -
ProfileThe Smithsonian Used Her DNA. And Lost Her Trust.
Why Sally Hemings’ oldest descendant is sounding the alarm about a new book on Thomas Jefferson.The Chronicle of Higher Education -
Book ReviewThe Slave’s Power
Two recent books employ inventive approaches to read against the grain of the archive of slavery produced by those who built and benefited from it.New York Review of Books -
CommentJefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Smith: The College Board Adds a New Founding Father
On the politics of canonization in academia.Liberal Currents -
OriginalA Brief History of History Podcasting
Charting the evolution of the genre from 2004–2026.Bunk