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The American dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

What a forgotten commander in chief can teach Donald Trump.

Mark Felt wasn’t out to protect American democracy and the rule of law; he was out to get a promotion.

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.

The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

White supremacists have long used fear of losing essential rights in their arguments.

His hands-off approach to policy-making and moral leadership hearkens back to much earlier times.

Laws preventing the removal of statues raise questions not only about historical legacy but also about local control and public safety.

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.

To avoid catastrophe, Kennedy turned to diplomacy. Trump would be wise to do the same.

"Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” by Mark Bray, is part history, part how-to.

They believed public schools were the foundation of a virtuous republic.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson are not the only similarities between the two administrations.

What happened in Virginia was not the culminating battle of this conflict. It’s likely a tragic preface to more of the same.

The myth of Ike’s nuclear recklessness could lead us into war.

Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.

There are fewer checks in the system than you might think.

How we got to warnings about fire and fury: the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean nation of Grenada thousands of miles from North Korea.

The political theory of Trumpism.

Make America reality-based again.

If too much partisanship is the problem, more bureaucracy might be the answer.

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf since becoming president. Can his habit be explained by his "sky-high extroversion?"

This online forum sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era features 9 essays and a roundtable on the future of Reconstruction Studies.