On three takeaways from one of the most brutal commercial train accidents in our history. It’s far from the most telling and nowhere near the most tragic thing about that October 1901 crash in North C...

October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...

On how the transcontinental railroad changed industries, communities, and the nation. Much of the framing of the completion and effects of the transcontinental railroad has tended to focus on passenge...

Alt: Lance Geiger: That Is History!

October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...

The meaning of religious liberty remains contested, part of the longstanding but evolving battle between exclusionary and inclusive visions of our community.

Baseball has the ability to show us the worst and best of American history. One striking such moment took place 100 years ago, in the autumn of 1926.

Season 2: Diamond in the Rough A system of horrific, inhumane camps where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated. Homegrown baseball diamonds at the camps that became sites of communal...

Baseball has the ability to show us the worst and best of American history. One striking such moment took place 100 years ago, in the autumn of 1926.

A Genre Approach to Hocus Pocus (1993)

Takeaways from the commercial trains that serviced several key New England waterfronts. Salem, MA: That piece from Salem State University librarian Susan Edwards nicely traces the 1830s origins and 19...

October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...

On three figures who together help us remember that first commercial railroad. Gridley Bryant: There are multiple figures whom we could focus on to frame the starting points for the Granite Railway, i...

On three figures who together help us remember that first commercial railroad. Gridley Bryant: There are multiple figures whom we could focus on to frame the starting points for the Granite Railway, i...

Alt: Thomas The Train Thomas The Tank Engine

October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...

I know it’s spooky season now, but it’s also always solidarity season—so here’s my 296th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the pas...

October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...

I know it’s spooky season now, but it’s also always solidarity season—so here’s my 296th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the pas...

These are things I’ve already said elsewhere and often this week, but I can’t end a series on our website, communal as it is designed and intended to be, without reiterating a few key and very earnest...

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I know it’s spooky season now, but it’s also always solidarity season—so here’s my 296th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the pas...

These are things I’ve already said elsewhere and often this week, but I can’t end a series on our website, communal as it is designed and intended to be, without reiterating a few key and very earnest...

[August 1 st marks the 150 th anniversary of Cherokee Chief John Ross ’s death. So this week I’ll AmericanStudy Ross and other native...

[Just to prove that American Studies inspirations can and do come from everywhere, this week I’m going to feature five topics that I was p...