It’s Bastille Day. Read about the French Revolution, in context, by a British professor of history writing for the BBC’s History Extra.
Hamilton the movie doesn’t represent Hamilton the man, says Phil Magness in Independent Review.
Why did the French army fold in 1940? Or did it? Robert J. Young calls the story of French military weakness “misremembering” and writes about it in two essays (here and here) on the History News Network.
An amazing historical find: The dispute over the Freedmen’s statue leads to discovery of a letter about the statue by Frederick Douglass (he disliked it). In the Wall Street Journal.
“We shall overcome.” Black Americans overcame, and Walter Williams explains why “as a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, and in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in history.”
No, slavery did not enrich Americans, writes Art Carden on AIER.
Woodrow Wilson’s name to disappear from Princeton. (He was president of Princeton before becoming U. S. president.