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Lothrop Stoddard believed that the concept of “natural equality” between people was a threat to America. In the 1920s, it was hardly a fringe idea. www.hnn.us/article/a-da...
A Danger to Civilization
Lothrop Stoddard believed that the concept of “natural equality” between people was a threat to America. In the 1920s, it was hardly a fringe idea.
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Where has this myth of repressed Victorian Britain come from? And why has it remained? www.hnn.us/article/myth...
Where Did the Myth of the Victorian Prude Come From?
The actions of a few elites shaped the way we remember an entire generation.
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It took time for the fight against British taxes and tyranny to claim the character of a revolution. www.hnn.us/article/decl...
Declaring “Revolution”
Even after the fighting started, it took years before American Patriots started calling their cause a “revolution.”
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Why do Americans continue to stretch the truth, 19th-century style, about the country’s founders? www.hnn.us/article/youn...
<em>Young Washington</em> Is Old History
A new movie relies on 19th century myths to portray the very British George Washington as a moralistic proto-American ready to pursue independence.
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“For many people, the experience of living through the American Revolution was a deeply distressing, traumatic ordeal, one wracked by inner turmoil, fear, and insecurity. These emotions manifested most palpably in domestic life.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Sweets of Peace and Domestic Happiness
Domestic life was vital to white Americans’ practice of independence after the Revolutionary War.
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On the United States’ 150th birthday, Calvin Coolidge said that the country’s work was done. Not everyone agreed. www.hnn.us/article/an-a...
An Appeal for Inaction
On the United States’ 150th birthday, Calvin Coolidge said that the country’s work was done. Not everyone agreed.
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The film doesn’t portray young Washington as the arrogant, highly anglicized British subject that scholars have shown him to be. Instead, he is a moralistic proto-American. The only thing British about Washington is the actor who was cast to play him. www.hnn.us/article/youn...
<em>Young Washington</em> Is Old History
A new movie relies on 19th century myths to portray the very British George Washington as a moralistic proto-American ready to pursue independence.
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“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.” — John Adams mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
Beware of attending a historical film with a historian. Read Denver Brunsman on the old history in the new movie, “Young Washington.” www.hnn.us/article/youn...
<em>Young Washington</em> Is Old History
A new movie relies on 19th century myths to portray the very British George Washington as a moralistic proto-American ready to pursue independence.
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We call it the “American Revolution.” But what did the Patriots call their cause 250 years ago? www.hnn.us/article/decl...
Declaring “Revolution”
Even after the fighting started, it took years before American Patriots started calling their cause a “revolution.”
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The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding. www.hnn.us/article/birt...
Birthright Citizenship Existed Before the Fourteenth Amendment
The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
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The Veiled Prophet would be misinterpreted as a Santa Claus character, but its true origins are as a Ku Klux character. He was a direct response to the St. Louis Commune — an interracial show of force by the city’s workers. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-...
How White Supremacists Responded to the Great Strike of 1877
St. Louis elites responded to a nationwide labor movement with a movement of their own.
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up now on @myhnn.bsky.social — read an excerpt from Chapter 1 of THE VEILED PROPHET on the 1877 Railroad strike 🧨 www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-...
The women who founded the 1980s-era Parents Music Resource Center portrayed it as being beyond politics. Its actions, funding, and legacy suggest otherwise. www.hnn.us/article/just...
Just Mad Mamas?
The women who founded the 1980s-era Parents Music Resource Center portrayed it as being beyond politics. Its actions, funding, and legacy suggest otherwise.
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This week’s Continuum is dedicated to the career and legacy of Gordon Wood. mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
Many Americans felt the U.S. had failed to live up to its ideals on its 200th anniversary. They hoped it might improve by the Declaration’s next big celebration. www.hnn.us/article/bice...
The Bicentennial Made American History Look Ridiculous
Many Americans felt the U.S. had failed to live up to its ideals on its 200th anniversary. They hoped it might improve by the Declaration’s next big celebration.
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Minus the history leading up to Dred Scott, readers may presume that Taney’s opinion reaffirmed existing precedents, reflecting a popular consensus. Not so! His decision sparked outrage precisely because it was radically new. www.hnn.us/article/birt...
Birthright Citizenship Existed Before the Fourteenth Amendment
The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
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Van Gosse has the antidote to the 14th amendment nonsense. It was never the beginning of birthright citizenship. (And I might add that saying so gives Roger Taney a posthumous victory.) www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/birt...
Birthright Citizenship Existed Before the Fourteenth Amendment
The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
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The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/birt...
Birthright Citizenship Existed Before the Fourteenth Amendment
The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
historynewsnetwork.org
“Imagine for a moment that you are a Russian worker in St. Petersburg in late 1782. Your job is to drive piles into the ground using a towering contraption of weights and pulleys.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Bentham Brothers Build a Panopticon
Attracted by autocracy, two 18th-century Englishmen went to Russia and invented a method to consolidate control over workers.
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well well well, if it isn't the Bentham brothers-- another excerpt from Control Science, this one with HNN! www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Bentham Brothers Build a Panopticon
Attracted by autocracy, two 18th-century Englishmen went to Russia and invented a method to consolidate control over workers.
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Today’s Continuum is inspired by the latest HNN feature, in which Marc Egnal reflects on 50 years of scholarship about the American Revolution, and calls for more attention to the material conditions that influenced the colonies’ break with England. mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
“Together, the slave code and patrol law were meant to bring a brutal restoration of enslavers’ law and order to South Carolina and to turn the page, both on these years of sharpened resistance by enslaved people and on lax habits of white policing and vigilance.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Prehistory of the Slave Patrol
As slave rebellions roiled the minds of 18th century Americans, enslavers looked to the state to enact a new type of policing.
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How the residents of Sherman, Texas, came together to patch a hole in historical memory. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...
The Hard Work of Reckoning with Local History
How the residents of Sherman, Texas, came together to patch a hole in historical memory.
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“As slave rebellions captured enslavers’ imaginations, they embraced another type of policing — one in which government institutions would play a more important role than the deputized enslaver acting on their own.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Prehistory of the Slave Patrol
As slave rebellions roiled the minds of 18th century Americans, enslavers looked to the state to enact a new type of policing.
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Thanks @myhnn.bsky.social for this excerpt from my new book about the origins of slave patrols: "slave patrols were emergency measures...But if the emergency never receded, then it became the norm. So, too, did the slave patrol." www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...
The Prehistory of the Slave Patrol
As slave rebellions roiled the minds of 18th century Americans, enslavers looked to the state to enact a new type of policing.
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Earlier today, we tagged and posted our 15,000th piece of American history content on Bunk. A milestone! Big appreciation to all the great authors represented here: www.bunkhistory.org/resources?so... 🗃️
A historian stumbles upon an article that provides a fascinating glimpse into how the world thought about witchcraft and sex in 1963. www.hnn.us/article/read...
Reading <em>Playboy</em> for the History
A historian stumbles upon an article that provides a fascinating glimpse into how the world thought about witchcraft and sex in 1963.
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