Current Events in Historical Context

  • Named for the Enemy

    Ty Seidule | Aug 4, 2020

    A historian and retired brigadier general explains how white supremacy and deference to "local sensibilities" created the US Army's Confederate problem. 
  • Defund the Police

    Austin McCoy | Jun 12, 2020

    Historian Austin McCoy analyzes protest slogans, which can spark debate about a movement's demands, goals, and paths forward.
  • School without Schools

    Chad Lower | Jun 8, 2020

    In just 10 days Columbus City Schools designed and implemented a plan to continue schooling without classrooms.
  • An Act of “Tactical History”

    Karen Sieber | Jun 3, 2019

    Frustrated by a lack of easily accessible materials on the Red Summer, Sieber took to the road and created a digital archive.
  • Puff, Puff, Pass

    Emily Dufton | Apr 16, 2019

    A booming kid-oriented paraphernalia marketplace unraveled efforts to legalize cannabis in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • After Charlottesville

    Matthew Gabriele | Jan 2, 2019

    What connects white supremacist nostalgia for the Middle Ages and for the American Civil War?
  • “We’re Not Just Students, We Are Organizers”

    Elizabeth Todd-Breland | Nov 29, 2018

    In 1963, Black students desegregated Chicago’s schools. In 2018, student activists are drawing inspiration from their predecessors.
  • Ground Strategy

    Dane Kennedy | Sep 7, 2018

    The farm bill, renewed every five years or so, has transformed America’s agricultural landscape.
  • Strike Pedagogy

    Aura S. Jirau | Aug 31, 2018

    For student activists in Puerto Rico, striking is often a means to learn and educate.
  • RIP to the Liberal Order

    Suzy Kim | Aug 13, 2018

    Misgivings about the end of the liberal order following the US-North Korea summit ignore the US historical record.

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