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Origin Story
History Explains the Backlash to Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter'
Black cowboys made up as much as a quarter of working ranch hands during late 19th century. That legacy has been obscured.Made by History -
Book Excerpt
When Preachers Were Rock Stars
A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.The New Yorker -
Argument
Overlooking the Past
Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.Law & Liberty -
Debunk
When Feminism Was ‘Sexist’—and Anti-Suffrage
The women who opposed their own enfranchisement in the Victorian era have little in common with the “Repeal the 19th” fringe of today.The American Conservative -
Book Excerpt
Big Government Country
Connie B. Gay and the roots of country music militarization.UNC Press Blog -
Retrieval
The Most Hated Sound on Television
For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.The Atlantic -
exhibit
1968 @50
A year of turmoil at home and abroad.
From the HNN Archive
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No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks
On the long tradition of Black third-party activism. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
Plate Tectonics
A Brief History of the License Plate