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Was Santa White?

December 20, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Pundits have sunk their teeth into a fight recently over whether or not Santa was white. After Fox News commentator M...

Why Were Tariffs Politically Important in Late 19th-Century America?

December 09, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson After the Civil War, new industries brought Americans not just new products, but also more spending money and l...

The History of National Thanksgiving

November 28, 2013

[ Here we repost a piece on the history of Thanksgiving that originally appeared on Thursday November 25, 2010] Heather Cox Richardson Any...

What the Gettysburg Address Means for America Today

November 18, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a national cemetery at Gettysburg. When the batter...

More on Assassinations (Because Randall Got Me Started)

November 14, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Cartoon of Charles Guiteau by Miriam Leslie, 1881. Today is a curious anniversary. On November 14, 1851, Herman Melvi...

“To a Sailor’s Eye A Monstrous Creature": The Salvage of the CSS Georgia

November 12, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Last week the U.S. Navy began the process of salvaging the CSS Georgia . There were two Confederate ships that bore t...

George Lawrence Price: The Last Battlefield Fatality of World War I

November 11, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson The guns in Europe fell silent on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. George Lawrenc...

Went With The Wind!

November 08, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson In honor of the birthday of Margaret Mitchell (November 8, 1900), I’d like to offer the very best thing to come out o...

The Elections of Grover Cleveland

November 04, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Grover Cleveland , by Anders Zorn, 1899. On November 4, 1884, voters elected Grover Cleveland, the reform-minded gove...

What Blogging, Twitter, and Texting Do for the Historian's Craft

October 20, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson For all their new applications, new technologies are also good for the old-fashioned craft of history. They are excel...

A Tense October

October 18, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson United States Department of Defense graphic in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. The Cuban...

Will Blog Posts and Tweets Hurt Junior Scholars? Part 2

October 02, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Untenured scholars are in a funny place: that gap between the old world and the new. Ten years ago, yes, blogging wou...

Should Historians Use Twitter? Part 1

September 26, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Yes. But since I still have more than 136 characters left, here’s my take on the Twitter question: I have had many co...

Mothers in the Academy: How to Do It All*

June 19, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson Well, first you need a good household staff. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. OK, now that we’ve got the hilarity out of the way,...

Mothers in the Academy

June 09, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson A recent study shows that having children hurts women in academia at every stage of the profession. This will not be ...

Summer Reading: Understanding Historical Theory (Quickly)

May 13, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson As the school year winds to a close, incoming graduate students have been asking me what they should read...

A New Old Look at Mother's Day

May 10, 2013

The following is a reposting of a May 6, 2011 piece. Heather Cox Richardson While I’m as happy as the next mom to get chocolate on Mother’s...

A Century of New York City Photographs

May 09, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson The New York City Municipal Archives has put on-line more than 800,000 images. This is simply an astonishing collecti...

The Chinese Exclusion Act and American Economic Policy

May 08, 2013

Heather Cox Richardson On May 6, 1882, President Chester Arthur signed into law theChinese Exclusion Act . This hotly contested...

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