On July 10th, 2015, members of a South Carolina Highway Patrol honor guard reeled down the Confederate flag from a pole in front of the statehouse. Ten thousand onlookers roared excitedly as the flag descended, some cheering “USA! USA! USA!” – a traditionally patriotic shout that took on new meaning when chanted at the flag representing the Confederate…
This Thanksgiving, look back on some of the pieces on Native America that Erstwhile has published over the years. The list starts with the oldest posts first. Update: for 2017, I have added in four pieces that we published over the course of the past year! Erstwhile sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and CU Boulder professor…
Erstwhile contributing editor Graeme Pente explores the implications of a new Canadian multimedia project that encourages the country to confront its colonial history with the region’s First Peoples. You don’t make a dent / In indifference / Ya gotta haunt them, haunt them, haunt them — Gord Downie, Secret Path (2016) The graphic novel is the…
Contributing editor Julia Frankenbach considers the importance of early western American literature for academic historians and for a politically engaged American public. In this moment of political confusion, facts begin to ring hollow. The broader truths and guiding ethics in the writings of our western American forebears may help as we seek the way forward.…
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