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Trump greeting supporters.

White Tribe Rising

What accounts for white tribalism?
by James McWilliams via The Hedgehog Review on June 21, 2018
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA.

The Vietnam War and White Power

A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."
by Kathleen Belew, Sean Illing via Vox on April 13, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Now

The canonical image of Martin Luther King Jr. neglects many of his most important intellectual, ethical, and political critiques.
by Brandon M. Terry via Boston Review on January 9, 2018
Man holding a Veterans for Trump sign at a rally.

Forgotten Men

The long road from FDR to Trump.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on December 12, 2017

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017

The Monitor: The Punk Album that Predicted Our Politics

How Titus Andronicus drew on Civil War lore to frame contemporary social divides.
by Alex Sayf Cummings via Tropics of Meta on November 4, 2017

The Rage of White Folk

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on September 27, 2017

Before Trump vs. the NFL, There was Jackie Robinson vs. JFK

Years after he integrated the MLB, Robinson publicly badgered John F. Kennedy on civil rights.
by Steven Levingston via Retropolis on September 24, 2017

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.
by Jefferson Cowie via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 1, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

America's Deadly Divide - and Why it Has Returned

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.
by David W. Blight via The Guardian on August 20, 2017

When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.
by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on April 20, 2017

“We Lost Our Appetite for Food”: Why Eighteenth-Century Hangriness Might Not Be a Thing

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via Nursing Clio on April 20, 2017

Policing the Colony: From the American Revolution to Ferguson

King George's tax collectors abused police powers to fill his coffers. Sound familiar?
by Chris Hayes via The Nation on March 29, 2017
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.
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The Reason in the Riot

Senator Fred Harris describes his experience on the Kerner Commission, tasked with explaining the causes of urban riots in 1967.
via BackStory on August 18, 2016

A Raised Voice

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.
by Claudia Roth Pierpont via The New Yorker on August 11, 2014
Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
by Alston Chase via The Atlantic on June 1, 2000
Ticket for Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral service at Morehouse College, April 9, 1968.

The Shot That Echoes Still

James Baldwin's dispatch from MLK's funeral foreshadowed an America we may never escape.
by James Baldwin, Michael Eric Dyson via Esquire on April 4, 1972
Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

The Crisis in America’s Cities

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on August 15, 1967
Mexican-Americans carry signs protesting the war in Vietnam.

The National Chicano Moratorium Anti-Vietnam War March and Ruben Salazar Inquest: 55 Years Later

The outcome to these three connected events remains ambivalent. Six decades later, many of the issues animating the moratorium remain as relevant as ever.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on August 27, 2025
Silhouettes of a family, three wearing shirts showing matching DNA shirts, and one with different DNA.

The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans have discovered family secrets. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.
by Jennifer Wilson via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025
Engraving of the burning of Portland, Maine, in 1776

The Biggest Coverup of the American Revolution

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III. But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.
by Andrew Lawler via The Bulwark on July 4, 2025
Engraving of Founding Fathers reading the Declaration of Independence while onlookers rally.

Does America Have a Founding Philosophy?

It depends on how you read the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths.
by James R. Stoner, Jr. via Modern Age on July 1, 2025
A group of workers in hard hats walk through the shallow water of one of the Panama Canal's locks.

‘The Canal Is Ours’

Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.
by Miriam Pensack via New York Review of Books on June 28, 2025
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Acey Harper/Getty Images.

The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

A dark mystery shocked America in the early 1990s, from prime-time shows to Congress. It’s largely been forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
by Josh Levin via Slate on June 25, 2025
Martin Luther King Jr stands behind a podium.

5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Nation on June 19, 2025
The all seeing eye reveals that the American flag is melting.

America’s Broken Commonwealth

The nation’s founding myth was based on faith and solidarity – but it also contained the roots of today’s democratic crisis.
by Rowan Williams via New Statesman on May 22, 2025
A cartoon depicts two bandaged men suspended on the scales of justice raising their fists at each other.

Jack London’s Fantastic Revenge

In his short story “The Benefit of the Doubt,” Jack London turned truth into fiction, and then some.
by Andrew Rihn via The Saturday Evening Post on May 19, 2025
Leonard Bernstein practices with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1967.

How Leonard Bernstein Changed the Canon

In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.
by David Denby via The Atlantic on April 1, 2025
William and Henry James.

William and Henry James

Examining the tumultuous bond between the two brothers.
by Peter Brooks via The Paris Review on April 1, 2025
A moving truck on cinder blocks.

How Progressives Froze the American Dream

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on February 10, 2025
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