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America Doesn't Deserve Fast Trains
For 70 years, the U.S. has failed to achieve faster trains—because it refuses to do what it takes to make them work.
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David Alff
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Made by History
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December 11, 2023
Bayard Rustin Showed the Promise and Pitfalls of Coalition Politics
Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.
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Chris Maisano
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Jacobin
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December 9, 2023
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‘Atoms for Peace’ Was Never All That Peaceful—And the World Is Still Living With the Consequences
The U.S. sought to rebrand nuclear power as a source of peace, but this message helped mask a violent history.
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Tommy Song
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Made by History
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December 8, 2023
A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger
For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
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Greg Grandin
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The Nation
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November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped World Affairs Under Two Presidents, Dies at 100
He was the only person ever to be national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He was also the target of relentless critics.
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Thomas W. Lippman
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Washington Post
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November 30, 2023
Revisiting New York’s Historic Abortion Law in “Deciding Vote”
Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions.
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Robert Lyons
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Jeremy Workman
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Linnea Feldman Emison
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The New Yorker
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November 29, 2023
Bad Shot, Mary
The mistress of JFK, there was a lot more than wealth, whiteness, and femininity to make Mary Pinchot Meyer a target of murder.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Apocalypse Confidential
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November 22, 2023
Whiggism Is Still Wrong
Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to "make hard work cool again." He isn’t the first.
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Sohrab Ahmari
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The American Conservative
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November 21, 2023
The Strange Death of Private Life
In the early 1970s, the idea that private life meant a right to be left alone – an idea forged over centuries – began to disappear. We should mourn its absence.
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Tiffany Jenkins
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Engelsberg Ideas
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November 21, 2023
The Conquered General
The back-and-forth life of Confederate James Longstreet.
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Richard Kreitner
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Slate
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November 20, 2023
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Government Shutdowns Were Never Necessary Anyway
Government shutdowns only became possible in 1980, when the Attorney General offered a new interpretation of an 1870 law.
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M. A. Davis
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Made by History
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November 16, 2023
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What Civil War History Says About Attempts to Use the Insurrection Clause to Keep Trump From Office
Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.
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Elizabeth R. Varon
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Made by History
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November 15, 2023
Searching for the Perfect Republic
On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.
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Eric Foner
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Ted Widmer
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The Guardian
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November 15, 2023
Surviving a Wretched State
A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
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Melvin L. Rogers
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Neil Roberts
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Boston Review
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November 15, 2023
The Massacre That Turned Texas Into the Most Gun-Friendly State in America
The effects of the 1991 mass shooting at a Luby's in Killeen can still be felt today—in the legislature and on our streets.
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Emily McCullar
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Texas Monthly
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November 14, 2023
One of the Oldest Broken Promises to Indigenous Peoples Is for a Voice in Congress
A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.
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John Nichols
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The Nation
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November 14, 2023
The Annotated Frederick Douglass
In 1866, the famous abolitionist laid out his vision for radically reshaping America in the pages of "The Atlantic."
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Frederick Douglass
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David W. Blight
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The Atlantic
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November 13, 2023
The Confederate General Whom All the Other Confederates Hated
James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why?
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Eric Foner
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The Atlantic
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November 13, 2023
How Reconstruction Created American Public Education
Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.
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Adam Harris
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The Atlantic
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November 13, 2023
This President was Widely Attacked for Being Too Old to Run — at 67
In 1840, William Henry Harrison was mocked for his presidential run at age 67 — 15 years younger than President Biden would be at the start of a second term.
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Ronald G. Shafer
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Retropolis
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November 12, 2023
Let’s Give Black World War II Vets What We Promised
The G.I. Bill created a prosperous middle class that was altogether too white.
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Timothy Noah
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The New Republic
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November 10, 2023
A Shotgun Wedding
Barely-disguised hostilities sometimes belied the rebels’ declared identity as the United States of America.
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Lynn Uzzell
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Law & Liberty
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November 9, 2023
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The Problem With the Abortion-Rights Move That Worked in Ohio
History shows that activists can win statewide fights—but that the strategy might be unsustainable long-term.
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Felicia Kornbluh
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Made by History
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November 8, 2023
Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura’s Shocking Election 25 Years Ago Previewed Trump’s
The former pro wrestler says his surprise election as Minnesota governor paved the way for Donald Trump. Now he looks back “shamefully” on their past ties.
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Frederic J. Frommer
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Retropolis
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November 3, 2023
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A Blueprint From History for Tackling Homelessness
During the New Deal, the U.S. knew that economic recovery depended upon housing.
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Jonathan van Harmelen
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Made by History
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November 2, 2023
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America’s Border Wall Is Bipartisan
Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.
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Mary Mendoza
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Made by History
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October 30, 2023
The Saturday Night Massacre at 50
What actually happened in one of the most disruptive episodes of the supposed Watergate scandal?
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Declan Leary
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The American Conservative
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October 23, 2023
The Revolution Within the American Revolution
Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
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Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
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October 23, 2023
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The History Behind the Right's Effort to Take Over Universities
The right has had qualms about universities since the 1930s.
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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Made by History
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October 23, 2023
The Missing Politics of Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Blaming corrupt individuals rather than federal Indian policy for the violence and exploitation perpetrated against the Osage Nation misses the mark.
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Robert Allen Warrior
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New Lines Magazine
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October 20, 2023
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