We are living through the Second American Revolution
The American people are once again asserting their right to self-governance
American history
Sunday
Monday
Old texts and Bacon’s Castle: a walk through Virginia history
What Bacon’s Castle looks like inside and out has about it the undeniable strangeness of the past
Monday
The awesome Alan Pell Crawford
The writer has made a literary reputation on his fluid narratives of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Southern history
Friday
A Boston tea party and Christmas time on Cape Cod
After all this oyster talk, we realized we had not yet eaten any
Tuesday
The gentlemanly legacy of the Shine-O-Mat
There is something about the whir of the machine’s two great buffing wheels
Monday
Visiting a forgotten chapter in American history
We May Dominate the World is a work of prodigious scholarship, featuring an extraordinary breadth and depth of sources
Sunday
Why civics test scores are falling in American schools
For the next generation, history isn’t being rewritten. It’s being intentionally obscured
Monday
Are New England’s stone heaps Native Americans’ sacred ruins?
Native Americans are being exploited by self-interested settler-colonists — yet again
Saturday
Adieu, Teddy Roosevelt
It’s open season on the past
Thursday
Have Americans got George III all wrong?
George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later
Saturday
What high-school history books teach about 9/11
Most portray the attacks as just something that happened
Friday
The National Anthem is doomed
Slavery will become the cudgel used to obliterate every piece of American history, culture and law
Wednesday
The demise of America has been greatly exaggerated
To be an American is to move ever forward, in pursuit of that ‘more perfect union’
Saturday
Antifa’s white privilege
Even in a riot, the races aren’t equal
Tuesday
The 1619 Project is the 2019 Project — and the 2020 Project
The New York Times is stoking the woke with a narrative of shame
