‘American Primeval’ and the Utah War — a historian’s take on the real men, real militias and real massacres
Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific ...
Trump invoked all corners of American history. How might he use them to build his new 'Golden Age'?
He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and ...
‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...
‘The Gulf of America’? Here’s What Mexicans and Cubans Think.
Following President Trump’s order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, at least in the United States, Mexicans and Cubans expressed ...
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What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats
A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...
The Myth of Opportunity Has Broken America
America's myth of opportunity has created the unprecedented civic crisis that brought Donald Trump back to power, writes Adam ...