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Trump Is Wrong About Birthright Citizenship. History Proves It.
Lawmakers knew the Fourteenth Amendment would apply to the children of immigrants.
by
Joshua Zeitz
via
Politico Magazine
on
June 29, 2025
Black Women’s Voices and the Archive
The archive silences the voices of Black women, invalidating the realities of Black women and subjecting enslaved and free(d) women to epistemic violence.
by
Halee Robinson
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 15, 2017
All In the Family
How William F. Buckley Jr. turned his father’s private convictions and prejudices into a major political movement.
by
Paul Baumann
via
Commonweal
on
June 26, 2025
"Corporate America’s Security Guards In-Blue": State Violence and Latinx Protest in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has a history of Latinx protest; one that is often marred by police violence.
by
George Francis-Kelly
via
The Metropole
on
June 30, 2025
On Myths and Monuments
Mount Rushmore and storytelling at America’s national parks.
by
Stephen R. Hausmann
via
Perspectives on History
on
July 9, 2025
partner
The Founders Knew Great Wealth Inequality Could Destroy Us
At the founding of America, leaders predicted that a concentration of wealth would weaken the republic.
by
Daniel R. Mandell
via
Made By History
on
July 7, 2025
No Place of Grace
Coming to terms with free-state slavery through historic buildings and public history.
by
Richard Newman
via
The Panorama
on
July 7, 2025
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
by
Mari Cohen
via
Jewish Currents
on
December 19, 2024
Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting
When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.
by
Alan Wald
via
Boston Review
on
October 1, 1986
American Hysteria
Red Scare can be read as solid history of the years it depicts—and chilling prophecy of the years to come.
by
Maurice Isserman
via
Democracy Journal
on
June 18, 2025
It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion.
by
Julia Turner
via
The Atlantic
on
July 1, 2025
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
by
Ben Mathis-Lilley
via
Slate
on
July 10, 2025
Alien Enemies
The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.
by
Brandon Shimoda
via
The Baffler
on
July 9, 2025
A Supreme Court Justice Wrote the Greatest “No Kings” Essay in History
This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.
by
Gerard Magliocca
via
Slate
on
July 10, 2025
‘The LORD Told Me It’s Flat None of Your Business’: Jimmy Swaggart’s Scandalous Legacy
Jimmy Swaggart utilized his charisma to overcome not one, but two sex scandals.
by
Suzanna Krivulskaya
via
Religion Dispatches
on
July 2, 2025
partner
The China Business
At the turn of the century in upstate New York, one tiny town learned there was money to make in the jailing of Chinese migrants.
by
Brianna Nofil
via
HNN
on
October 22, 2024
Trump Is Hamiltonian, Not Jacksonian
He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”
by
Francis P. Sempa
via
Modern Age
on
July 10, 2025
partner
How Theater Helps Us Remember the Scopes Trial 100 Years Later
'Inherit the Wind' changed how people understand, and remember, the legendary Scopes trial.
by
Charlotte M. Canning
via
Made By History
on
July 10, 2025
The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants
Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.
by
David Scott FitzGerald
via
Foreign Affairs
on
July 10, 2025
A Nation of Imprisoned Immigrants
Jails have been foundational to immigration enforcement for over a century—and have always operated with a staggering absence of oversight and public awareness.
by
Brianna Nofil
via
Inquest
on
January 21, 2025
America the Beautiful
The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times.
by
Lincoln Caplan
via
The American Scholar
on
July 4, 2025
partner
A Mere Mass of Error
Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.
by
Philip Kadish
via
HNN
on
July 8, 2025
He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.
How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America.
by
Andrew Aoyama
via
The Atlantic
on
July 9, 2025
Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?
Long before the new detention facility in Florida, the reptile has featured in the fantasies of Southern racists.
by
Asher Elbein
via
Defector
on
July 9, 2025
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
J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration
Truths self-evident no more.
by
John Ganz
via
Unpopular Front
on
July 9, 2025
Greater America Has Been Exporting Disunion for Decades
So why are we still surprised when the tide of blood reaches our own shores?
by
Viet Thanh Nguyen
via
The Nation
on
June 10, 2025
Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
by
Joseph A. McCartin
via
The American Prospect
on
July 8, 2025
Right Here, Right Now: Jesus Jones and the Post-Cold War Moment
For a brief window at the end of the Cold War, British alt-rock band Jesus Jones tapped into global feelings of optimism and hope.
by
Dion Georgiou
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
December 24, 2024
partner
Scratching the Record
On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings.
by
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
via
HNN
on
July 8, 2025
The Secret Signal
The semaphore towers of the Hudson.
by
John Bulmer
via
Restoration Obscura
on
May 31, 2025
Remembering What the Parks Forgot
On memory, erasure, and the return of indigenous presence.
by
Ryan W. Booth
via
Perspectives on History
on
July 2, 2025
Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence
A new book offers a fresh perspective on the resistance of enslaved women and their interactions with the law.
by
Sean Gallagher
via
Black Perspectives
on
September 5, 2024
She Was the Greatest Author of Her Generation. She Should Be Remembered for More Than Her Writing.
Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon.
by
Dana A. Williams
via
Slate
on
June 17, 2025
The National Guard’s History of Violent Labor Repression
Donald Trump recently deployed California’s National Guard to repress protests in LA. The National Guard has a long history of breaking up protests and strikes.
by
Dana Frank
via
Jacobin
on
June 30, 2025
The 19th-Century Precursors to the Crises of Trump’s America
Revisiting history shows that violence and constitutional disputes are nothing new in US politics.
by
Marcus Alexander Gadson
via
New Lines
on
July 4, 2025
The ‘Dirty and Nasty People’ Who Became Americans
How 13 colonies came together.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
via
The Atlantic
on
July 4, 2025
Don’t Call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a Concentration Camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
by
Andrea Pitzer
via
MSNBC
on
July 5, 2025
Colony, Aviary and Zoo: New York Intellectuals
A new book examines the aggressive masculinity that the editors of the Partisan Review brought to their art and literary criticism.
by
David Denby
via
London Review of Books
on
July 3, 2025
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
Gimme Boer
The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner “refugees” points to a longer history of U.S. fascination with these Dutch-descended white South Africans.
by
Charlie Dulik
via
The Baffler
on
July 3, 2025
How the ‘Myth of Phineas Gage’ Affects Brain Injury Survivors
Why does the diagnosis of Gage social ‘disinhibition’ lean so heavily on flimsy documentation about Gage, while overlooking the case of Eadweard Muybridge?
by
Ben Platts-Mills
via
Aeon
on
June 23, 2025
‘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
Active Silence, Archival Presence, and An Enslaved Mother's Legal Knowledge
An enslaved woman’s refusal to name her child challenged Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws and left behind a rare archival trace of resistance.
by
Cory James Young
via
The Panorama
on
June 30, 2025
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
The Decline and Fall of Christianity in America
If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its decline: obsolescence.
by
Daniel N. Gullotta
via
The Bulwark
on
July 1, 2025
Masked Terror
ICE officers are wearing masks to conceal their identities. The Ku Klux Klan also employed masks to avoid prosecution for its acts of racial violence.
by
Sherrilyn Ifill
via
Sherrilyn's Newsletter
on
June 24, 2025
Good Queers and Bad Queers
Myths are fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability.
by
KJ Shepherd
via
Contingent
on
June 27, 2025
Birthright Citizenship and Reconstruction’s Unfinished Revolution
The idea that birth on U.S. soil confers citizenship has remained both foundational and contested.
by
Martha S. Jones
via
The Journal of the Civil War Era
on
January 26, 2017
Here Are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.
It’s uncanny.
by
Tim Murphy
,
David Corn
via
Mother Jones
on
July 3, 2025
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