Richard Wright’s Civil War Cipher
Grandpa “darkly boasted of having killed ‘mo’n mah fair share of them damn rebels’ while…
Browsing: Books
How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History
A few years ago, an editor at the British Library Press who was familiar with…
Writing Personally about Class in America
I have spent most of my career as a historian writing in one way or…
Houston Reviewed A Selected Bibliography
Flooding after Hurricane Harvey. Photograph by Daniel J. Martinez. A joint project of the American…
The Baker Street Vice Ring and the Birth of the Asian American Homo
A number of historians have marked the late nineteenth century as the beginning of U.S.…
Finding Emily A Story of Historical Recovery
Researching local history can be one of the most vexing and rewarding experiences in a…
African American Educational Traditions and the Challenge of Desegregation
In the 1940s, Charles Houston and his team of NAACP attorneys took film cameras to…
Comments on “The Kissinger Wars”
[Note that this piece is the final installment of our weeklong series on Kissinger and historians.] Among the…
History As It Really Wasn’t
[Note that this piece is a part of our weeklong series on Kissinger and historians. Come back during…
Perilous Polarities: A Defense of Historical Ecumenism
[Note that this piece is a part of our weeklong series on Kissinger and historians. Come back…