Free Silver Movement

On the failed dreams and forgotten ruins of William Hope Harvey.

The new note comes 125 years after the free silver movement tried—and failed—to use currency to forge a national identity.

Mamdani’s NYC mayoral rise revives debates over Democratic fusionism, echoing 1890s Populist struggles with establishment power.

By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as backward and inadequate.

While academic freedom is foundational to American higher education today, it is a relatively recent development.

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

Populism stretches through the American experience.