On Wednesday, September 10th, I moderated a webinar with notable immigration historians who situated the current presidential administration’s policing, detainment, and deportations of marginalized immigrants in conversation with the past. “How Did We Get Here? U.S. Immigration Historians Respond” brought together leading scholars of U.S. immigration history to reflect on the current environment of fear among […] The post “How Did We Get Here” Panel appeared first on No...| Not Even Past
The term “public history” entered my vocabulary only after I moved to the United States, where it designates a well-defined professional field. In Latin America, by contrast, similar practices have long existed without requiring a defined institutional/formal designation. Communities have always engaged in the making and sharing of history through oral traditions, local museums, memory collectives, and […] The post Long Before the Field: Community, Memory, and the Making of Public His...| Not Even Past
Big books on grand strategy like Donald Stoker’s 704-page Purpose and Power face an uphill struggle.[1] As John Schuessler noted in a recent H-Diplo roundtable on The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, the “sprawling” and disorganized nature of the field means that “all is not well with the study of grand strategy.”[2] Scholars, Schuessler continued,... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
On August 12, 2025, the White House sent a letter to the Smithsonian Institution stating that it would be “leading a comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions.| Close Up Foundation
When British forces surrendered at Yorktown in 1781, few would have imagined that the decisive blow had been financed not from Paris or Philadelphia, but from Havana. Behind this unexpected twist stood Francisco de Saavedra, a Spanish official whose name is absent from most American textbooks but whose actions helped change the course of the […] The post The Forgotten Spanish-Cuban Contribution to American Independence: Francisco de Saavedra and the Silver of Havana appeared first on Not Ev...| Not Even Past
In September 1935, Jimmie Lee Robinson and fourteen other Black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers stationed at Palo Duro State Park in the Texas Panhandle wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to protest their treatment in the CCC camp. “We work some time six days in a week,” they said, “and have to go to […] The post Constructing a Canyon: Black CCC Workers and the Making of Palo Duro appeared first on Not Even Past.| Not Even Past
Sarah Porter reviews The Hard Work of Hope: a Memoir by Michael Ansara, published in 2025.| Not Even Past
For all you educators, librarians, history lovers, and those who have been led to believe that history is boring… from Cloaked in Courage – ©Anne Lambelet Over the next year and a half,…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Earlier this summer, over at Nationhood Lab, we extended our data models to enable researchers to apply the American Nations model in Canada, This also let us create, for the... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
On July 4, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard discussed the project’s groundbreaking work on a shared American story on “Story in the Public Square,” the award-winning public affairs television series broadcast... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
Today’s political conversations often celebrate isolationism. Oddly, the 1920s are still widely considered isolationist even though that depiction was| University Press of Kansas
A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. I’ve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can remember. My mom and dad met, so the story went, when they were paired as dance partners performing in| Hard Crackers
Back in the old days—the 1970s—when I worked in advertising and was tuned into the marketing tactics that captured the hearts and minds of consumers,| University Press of Kansas
