Indigenous Erasure in Caribbean Histories of Colonization
Various municipal, state, and federal entities in North and South America have sporadically adopted (and…
Browsing: Historians
Rereading Blank Spaces in the Colonial Caribbean
Maps such as the one above—a depiction of the French Caribbean colony of Martinique,…
What’s in the August Issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The August 2018…
How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History
A few years ago, an editor at the British Library Press who was familiar with…
Americans, the Holocaust, and the Power of Unexpected Places
When I began curating the special exhibition Americans and the Holocaust for the United States…
American Indian History State of the Field Session
A large and enthusiastic crowd showed up for the “State of the Field: American Indian…
Social Activism, Hamilton, and Puerto Rico Selected Panels from #OAH18
The 2018 OAH Annual Meeting (#OAH18) on the theme “The Forms of History” reminded historians…
What’s in the May Issue of The American Historian?
Here’s a quick preview of the newest issue of The American Historian: The May 2018…
Bringing Indian Treaties to a Wider Audience
Since 2014, our neighbor on the National Mall, the National Museum of the American Indian…
Saturday Highlights at OAH 2018
At Saturday’s “Doing History” workshops, participants explored the use of animation, family history, and digital…