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How the Right Got Waco Wrong
Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.
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Paul M. Renfro
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The New Republic
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January 31, 2023
The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up
If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.
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Matthew E. Stanley
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Paul M. Renfro
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Slate
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January 9, 2023
To Understand the Modern GOP, Look at the Reactionary ’90s
The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Jacobin
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August 21, 2022
The Historians Take a First Crack at Donald J. Trump
On the promises and perils of very recent history.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Slate
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April 12, 2022
Stranger Dangers: The Right's History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon
Josh Hawley’s attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are part of a long, sad tradition.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Ali Breland
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Mother Jones
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March 28, 2022
This Teen’s AIDS Diagnosis Changed History
Ryan White’s story both reinforced and challenged assumptions about the disease.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Teen Vogue
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December 6, 2021
Fear in the Heartland
How the case of the kidnapped paperboys accelerated the “stranger danger” panic of the 1980s.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Slate
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August 9, 2021
America’s Long War on Children and Families
Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Boston Review
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June 22, 2020
How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever
Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.
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Paul M. Renfro
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CrimeReads
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May 26, 2020
War Has Been the Governing Metaphor for Decades of American Life
But the COVID-19 pandemic exposes its weaknesses.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Time
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April 15, 2020
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Coronavirus Is Different from AIDS
People comparing covid-19 and AIDS may obscure more than they clarify.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Made by History
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April 6, 2020