Perspectives on Culture
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Generation Past
David Spear | Oct 17, 2016
Once there was a history book series that was so successful, it lured an entire generation of young ... -
Introducing America in 20 Minutes: The Smithsonian’s New Film on the Nation’s History
Amanda Moniz | May 12, 2016
How do you condense hundreds of years of American history into 20 minutes? This was the challenge fa... -
Captive Histories: The Past and the Public at Andersonville
Evan Kutzler | May 12, 2016
Good news came the week after graduation ceremonies. I was offered a seasonal park ranger position a... -
Why Is William Bradford Smiling?
Karin Wulf | Jan 1, 2016
Like so much about “colonial America,” the importance attached to the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving is pr... -
American Historian, Meet American Girl
Marcia Chatelain | Dec 1, 2015
I’ve never been into children’s books.Even when I fell squarely in that all-important 8-to-11-year-o... -
"Downhill from There"
Helen Sheumaker | Oct 1, 2015
“And it all goes downhill from there”: harsh words last January from the Daily Mail Online about Dru... -
Teenage
Marcia Chatelain | Sep 2, 2014
We were teenagers, but we didn’t always exist . . . we were a wartime invention” is one of the refle... -
The Anarchist Cinema of Peter Watkins
David Armitage | Dec 1, 2013
This is round shot. This is what it does.” A three-pounder cannon fires its load; the camera moves ... -
12 Years a Slave Examines the Old South’s Heart of Darkness
Robert Brent Toplin | Nov 14, 2013
The audience leaving the theater after a recent screening of 12 Years a Slave looked deeply shaken. ... -
From the Pacific to the Atlantic AHA's Bridging Cultures Program Enters Its Second Year
Dana Schaffer | Nov 1, 2013
It's been almost a year since participants in the Pacific Worlds and the US History Survey seminar m...
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