Historique: A Blog on History, Memory, and the American Past

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Co-hosts Steve Blankenship and Shannon Bontrager take you on a guided tour of history, teaching history, and exploring why history...

The paper I presented at the Society of Military History Annual Conference 2021

I had a fantastic conversation with Matt Crawford at The Curious Man podcast. Matt is the Curious Man and he interviews authors from many...

What can we learn from fallen soldiers beyond the commemorative rituals and traditions that Americans practice? How do the locations were...

Here is the latest op ed for the History News Network. It talks about hot memory and the need for Americans to keep the past in the...

Matthew DiBiase is an Archivist Specialist at the National Archives in Philadelphia and he is also the host of his podcast The Packaged...

Peg at the History Shelf and I sat around and talked about my book Death at the Edges of Empire. She asked some fantastic questions and I...

Slave Voyages Database Analysis Social History developed as a historiographical force in the 1960s and 1970s. It involves looking at...

Greetings! I have had a few requests for additional information regarding my Microsoft Teams classroom column at the AHA Perspectives...

Interested in reading African/Arab literature? Thinking about books for your students to read in a World History or World Lit class? Want...

The five senses helps us navigate nature but, according to historian Andrew J. Rotter, they can also help us construct an empire. Rotter...

I am honored to be receive this support from the ACLS, which will help me work on my second book tentatively titled The Affinity of War:...

Graphic novels have reinvented the way that we approach the past. Here is a review of Lewis's graphic memoirs about his experiences in...

Here is the Op-ed I wrote for the History News Network on how President Trump's comments about soldiers at Aisne-Marne cemetery being...

My book was reviewed by Randall Fuller in the Wall Street Journal over the Memorial Day Weekend. Professor Fuller, who is the Herman...

I'm happy to announce that my book, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American...

Sam Mendes’s film, 1917, situates the first world war in the canon of western civilization. Less about history, 1917 seeks to capture the...

Americans, since the time of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, have developed a collective memory of empire that could be hidden, ...