Part X — Contested Primacy and the Return of Colonial Vocabulary in U.S. Power
History of the Land That Is the United States TodayIf Part IX described the architecture of American primacy after 1945—institutions,…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Architecture of Global Power After 1945)
Part IX The postwar pivot: from “victory” to system design After 1945, the U.S. does not merely “become powerful.” It…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Depression, New Deal, World War)
Part VIII The Great Depression: economic collapse as social rupture By 1933, unemployment and banking failure made daily life unstable…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Industrial Power and the Costs of “Closing” the Frontier)
Part VII Industrialisation: wealth, labour conflict, and new corporate power Late 19th-century U.S. history is driven by: It is also…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction)
Part VI Civil War as a national fracture The Civil War is often framed as “inevitable,” but historically it was…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Expansion, Removal, and Slavery’s Hardening)
Part VExpansion as policy: land hunger meets state power During the 19th century, U.S. growth is not a natural drift;…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Revolution, Republic, and Contradictions)
Part IV Independence as an argument, not only a war The American Revolution is often narrated as battlefield events. It…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Contact, Collision, Colonization)
Part III The Columbian Exchange: the biological revolution underneath the political one Before treaties, battles, or constitutions, the most transformative…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Indigenous Worlds Before 1492)
Part II A continent of nations, not a “prelude” It is common (and misleading) to treat Indigenous history as the…
History of the Land That Is the United States Today (Deep Time and First Footprints)
PART 1 The land before “history”: ice, rivers, and habitable corridors What becomes the United States is best read first…
Trump’s Venezuela and Greenland MOVES
Two episodes in rapid succession—U.S. strikes in Venezuela followed by the seizure of President Nicolás Maduro, and renewed U.S. talk…