History Matters

North American history

Miriam Mora | 3 November 2020

Donald Trump and Masculinity as Motivator

Simon Toner | 15 May 2020

“Light at the End of the Tunnel”? The Vietnam War, the Credibility Gap, and the COVID-19 Crisis

Rob Thompson | 27 April 2020

“Confederate Heritage Month” and the Memory of the American Civil War

Lydia Thomas | 25 March 2020

Reading Between the Lines: What Can Testimonies of Former Slaves Tell Us about their Relationships with their Former Mistresses?

David Kyle Johnson | 18 December 2019

There is No War on Christmas

Meighan Katz | 29 October 2019

Can A Single Piece Of Material Culture Represent The American Experience Of The Great Depression

Ryosuke Yokoe | 18 December 2018

Abstinence Or Moderate Drinking? Reflecting On The U.S. Prohibition In Britain

Liam Liburd | 7 December 2017

Transatlantic Fascism Before Trump

Justin Olmstead | 11 November 2017

Militarism, Immigrants, And Modern America

Andrew Heath | 2 May 2017

Why was there a Civil War? A Historian’s Response to Trump

Andrew Heath | 27 April 2017

The Mugwumps and the Revolt against Politics as Usual

Eirini Karamouzi| 2 February 2017

Doomsday Clock: Two minutes and 30 second closer to catastrophe

Martin Brown | 20 January 2017

What history can’t tell us about the future: Non-predictions for a Trumpy world

Kate Bellamy | 22 December 2016

What Goes Around (Eventually) Comes Around: A Partial Return to Mother-Tongue Instruction in P'urhepecha

Harriet Smart | 19 December 2016

On ‘Indigenous Languages and Cultures: Then and Now’

Aaron Ackerley | 23 November 2016

Post-Trump, Post-Truth: Post-Mortem?

Imen Neffati | 21 November 2016

Drawing Conclusions on Trump: How do you Caricature a Caricature?

Aaron Ackerley | 14 October 2016

Creepy Clowns: Terrifying Menace, Humorous Farce, or Instructive Case Study

James Williamson | 27 April 2016

Polygamy: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

Harriet Smart | 24 March 2016

JK Rowling’s Ilvermorny – A school in need of a history lesson?

Aaron Ackerlery | 2 March 2016

Satanic Cults and Ritual Abuse: A fantasy on film and in History?

Andrew Heath | 10 February 2016

Where has American socialism come from? (Or has it always been there?)

Andrew Heath | 3 June 2016

Boss Blatter: FIFA and U.S. Machine Politics

Andrew Heath | 14 April 2015

‘I’m John Wilkes Booth and So Is My Wife’: Naming Americans after Lincoln’s Assassin

George Francis | 31 March 2015

Remembering Civil Rights: Selma, King and the broad scope of Black Activism

Mark Seddon | 2 February 2015

Preventing ‘Another Castro’: John F. Kennedy and Latin America

Sophie Hylands| 11 August 2014

How should the USA remember the First World War?

Meghan Fitzpatrick| 4 August 2014

Remembering the Forgotten War: Korean veterans and the power of public memory

Mark Seddon | 29 July 2014

Video Games, Drugs and Violence: The Real and Virtual Lives of North and Noriega

Andrew Heath | 9 June 2014

A Nineteenth-Century Trojan Horse Plot: The Philadelphia Bible Riots

Charlie Thompson | 18 December 2013

Capitol Punishment: Telling Tales about Democracy in Washington D.C.

James Pennock | 26 November 2013

Striking a Chord: the Launch of Faith and Fear in Philadelphia

Andrew Heath | 21 November 2013

JFK, Richard Hofstadter, and the ‘Paranoid Style in American Politics’ at 50

Andrew Heath| 19 November 2013

The Gettysburg Address 150 Years On

Adam McKie | 28 October 2013

‘The People’s Monetary System’: Banking Reform and Banker Bashing in Post-Civil War America

Charlie Thompson | 16 October 2013

Shutdown 2013: Working in the Shutdown City

Andrew Heath | 2 October 2013

Where Have All My Sources Gone? Some Reflections on the Government Shutdown by a U.S. Historian in the U.K.

Andrew Heath | 19 July 2013

The 8 Mile Road Divide: Detroit’s Bankruptcy And Its Wealthy Neighbour

Pete David | 4 July 2013

Painting History: Music And Historical Imagination

Andrew Heath | 12 June 2013

To Hear The Past: Music, Faith And Fear In Philadelphia

Andrew Heath | 23 January 2013

‘When Times Change, So Must We’: The Uses of History in Obama’s Second Inaugural Address

Andrew Heath | 1 January 2013

The Emancipation Proclamation: An Uninspiring Anniversary?

Andrew Heath | 21 December 2012

A Sign of the Times: Millerism in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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