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Peter H. Wood

Bylines

The Caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate: White Supremacist Violence in Pen and Pixels

Absent social media, the artists of the past shaped public knowledge of historical events through illustrations.

by Peter H. Wood, Harlin J. Gradinn via Tropics of Meta on January 20, 2021
“Infection Unperceiv’d, in Many a Place”: The London Plague of 1625, Viewed From Plymouth Rock

In 1625, New England’s “hideous and desolate” isolation suddenly began to seem a God-given blessing in disguise.

by Peter H. Wood via We're History on April 15, 2020

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Two illustrated ships shaped like the continental United States sail towards one another. The left is blue. The right is red.

The ‘Two Ships’ Theory of American History

Can our unruly national story be squeezed into two vessels?

by James Traub via The Atlantic on June 28, 2026

Cover of "Liberty Is Sweet," featuring a painting of a man holding a gun to two soldiers on horseback.

Fighting the American Revolution

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

by Woody Holton, Tom Cutterham via Age of Revolutions on April 11, 2022

Black and white image of two women, one Black and one white, greeting each other with children in the background.

As One of the First White Kids in a Black School, I Learned Not to Fear History

Today, some Virginians would ‘protect’ children from the kind of valuable education that I had when my dad was governor.

by Woody Holton via Washington Post on November 12, 2021

Bubbles with numbers of black Georgia school teachers, centered is 1896 when there were 3316.

American History XYZ

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.

by Sasha Frere-Jones via Bookforum on November 9, 2020

Artwork titled Notes from Tervuren, featuring a figure against a multicolored painted music sheet.

Talking Drums

On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.

by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Oxford American on November 19, 2019

Maligned in Black and White

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

by Mark I. Pinsky via Poynter on May 8, 2019

University of Ohio

The Late Unpleasantness in Idaho: Southern Slavery and the Culture Wars

Culture warriors envision a future in which the educational power of universities will be harnessed to the propagation of a “biblical worldview” nationwide.

by William L. Ramsey via HNN on December 19, 2004

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