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The History of History
Jul 7 2010
'Historian' wasn't always a career path—only in the 19th century did it become a full-time academic occupation. [...] »
Historians Defined
Jul 7 2010
What, precisely, makes a historian, and what do they do? [...] »
Kentuckiana
Jul 7 2010
Mountains, coal, jugbands, pottery, quilts, feuds, flags, floods, labor strikes, Mary Todd Lincoln, moonshine, Mammoth Cave, bluegrass, tobacco, thoroughbreds, and thousands of other things, collected in a digital library. [...] »
African and Native Americans in Colonial and Revolutionary Times
Jul 7 2010
As peoples, African Americans and Native Americans have had a long and complex relationship, often characterized by their similar exclusion from the fruits of freedom envisioned at the time of the American Revolution. [...] »
Alternative Outcomes of World War II
Jul 7 2010
Great and small matters are bound up in the unwinding skein of historical events. The unfathomable consequences of hypothetical differences in the disposition of tank battalions in Northern France and (perhaps) the different scents in Eva Braun's perfume. [...] »
Feminist Art
Jul 7 2010
Explorations of the body, self-reference, and the entanglement of art and politics, in the service of a revolution, have been the themes of feminist art, as they have been the themes of other art of our time. [...] »
Bank Notes of the Second Bank of the United States
Jul 7 2010
The impermanence of paper money was matched by the impermanence of the bank that issued it. [...] »
The Era of Reform
Jul 7 2010
Was the antebellum period the height of reform movements in U.S. history? [...] »
Iroquois and the Founding Fathers
Jul 7 2010
Historians argue over whether the Founding Fathers' knowledge of Native American forms of confederation influenced their early plans for the government of the United States. [...] »
Colonial Teenagers
Jul 7 2010
Young people in their teens were not thought of as a distinct group, but as young adults who were obliged to work for their living, whether they lived at home or not. [...] »
