Category Archive: historiography

Black History Month Part V: “Race” and Its Kid Brother, “Whiteness”

Every summer, ToM contributors revisit works that influenced them and meditate on how they’ve held up over the years […]

Plains, Projects, and Alleyways: The Problem of Environmental Determinism in Architecture & History

Years ago, I saw a man at a Quaker meeting stand up and say, “Who you are begins […]

A New Look at Haiti’s Struggle for International Recognition

The following is an excerpt from Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (UNC Press, 2015), the wonderful […]

Was the Constitution Racist? Sanders and Wilentz May Both Be Wrong

Bernie Sanders thinks America was founded on racist principles. Sean Wilentz, the Pulitzer Prize nominated historian, disagrees. “The […]

Jeff Davis’s Ghost: The Long Battle over the Memory of the Civil War

History versus heritage? Memory versus history? Whose history and why? These questions are currently brewing a controversy at […]

What Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Actually Do?

Occasionally, a student asks a question so basic, about a presumption so fundamental to the teaching of history, […]

Mapping Community Narratives in El Monte and South El Monte

Dear Internet: Those of us who have been working on East of East have had a long two […]

ToM “Besties” of 2014

Hello there. You are now witnesses to a kind of confrontation between me and these three men. And […]