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The Spirits of Iwo Jima
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But They Were Our Troops: Peace Comes to America
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Must Read History Books of 2023
From spies, assassins, and dirty tricks in WWII to a revealing new biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Crazy Horse, Custer, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we have a history book for every reader this year.
The Last Outlaws
by Tom Clavin This week sees the publication of The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang. It’s the rip-snortin’ story of the Dalton brothers and how they robbed banks and trains in the late 1880s into the ‘90s. Things might have been different for...
Guåhan and the CHamoru People
Once in a while, the U.S. territory of GuÃ¥han (Guam) appears in mainstream media such as The New York Times, generally when catastrophic or near-catastrophic events involve the islandâmost recently as Typhoon Mawar and its ÂÂÂÂÂ140 mile-per-hour winds passed...
Saving Ancestors’ Graves
by Tom Clavin With the film Killers of the Flower Moon casting a spotlight not just on the Osage Nation but on Native Americans in general, this seems like a good time to highlight the achievement of Eliza “Lyda” Burton Conley. She was the third woman to argue a case...
The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
Author Matthew J. Davenport’s new book The Longest Minute tells the riveting and tragic true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Read an excerpt below. It was a few seconds past 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Jesse Cook, the veteran police...
Tips on Teaching K-12 LGBTQ+ History
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of The American Historian. With all of the headlines about Republican-dominated legislatures passing âDonât Say Gayâ curriculum censorship laws and white nationalist militia groups threatening Drag Story...
The London Beer Flood
by Tom Clavin Two hundred and nine years ago, an event took place that was both bizarre and tragic and I cannot resist writing about it—the London Beer Flood. Meux & Co’s Horseshoe Brewery (c. 1800) In the early 19th century, the Meux Brewery was one of the two...
Call for Papers: U.S. Intervention in Latin America
To reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup, and the U.S. role in Latin America more broadly, Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on U.S. intervention in Latin America. We are open to a wide variety of themes relating...
High Noon in Coffeyville
by Tom Clavin The following is an excerpt from The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang, which is to be published on November 7. On October 5, 1892, the notorious Dalton brothers—Bob, Grat, and Emmett—were seeking one last big score by robbing not...
“Let’s Raise Some Hell”: Clyde Warrior and the Red Power Movement
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Siege of Wounded Knee, the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists. For many historians, the resolution of the conflict with the federal government marks the end of the...
Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in the United States
Process invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on protests in U.S. history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to the histories of political protest in the United States. This could include a wide-range of protest movements, from the marches...
The Little-Known Women Who Helped Churchill Win the War
by Julia Kelly Whenever someone visiting London asks where they should go, I always recommend a trip to the Churchill War Rooms (CWR). Now a part of the Imperial War Museum, the CWR, which was known as the Cabinet War Rooms when it was in use, was a secret underground...
Daniel Boone’s Last Days
by Tom Clavin On September 26, 1820, legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone died at the extraordinary age of 85. The following is an adapted excerpt from Blood and Treasure by Bob Drury and yours truly, covering Boone’s final adventures. Daniel Boone. Portrait by...
Support the Troops: Gender and U.S. Civil-Military Relations During the âWar on Terror”
During the early years of the âglobal war on terror,â the call to âsupport the troopsâ was ubiquitous in the United States. The yellow ribbon associated with âsupporting the troopsâ adorned all sorts of material culture, from front-yard trees to magnets to...
I Hope You Are of Our Party: Fidelity and Betrayal
by Jack Kelly Shakespeare, of course, wrote acclaimed plays about history. But sometimes history takes the pen from the playwright’s hand and fashions a scenario of such startling tension and originality that the story seems destined for the stage. One of these dramas...