The American Studies Now series refuses the distinction between politics and culture—focusing on historical cultures of power and protest on the one hand, or the political importance of cultural practices on the …
This blog post explores a lesser-known piece of Confederate iconography, the Southern Cross of Honor. The US government’s gradual complicity in the establishment of these markers reveals how, and why, some insurrections become legitimized over time.
As Aldon Morris author of The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology notes below, Du Bois remains a figure of global importance because of his …
by David G. McIntosh with Rena M. Heinrich The Public Historian’s new special issue “Reckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement,” examines a collaborative …