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Thaddeus Stevens and the Power of the Purse
The Radical Republican oversaw federal spending at the dawn of Reconstruction. How did his support for Black equality affect his leadership in the House?
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Cecily Nelson Zander
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HNN
on
February 25, 2025
How Medicare Both Salved and Scarred American Health Care
The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy
by
Julian E. Zelizer
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Zócalo Public Square
on
February 17, 2017
How Medicare Was Made
The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.
by
Julian E. Zelizer
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The New Yorker
on
February 15, 2015
Trump Loves The 1890s But He’s Clueless About Them
The tariffs he keeps babbling about didn’t make that decade great. They helped usher in a depression.
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Eric Rauchway
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The Bulwark
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October 23, 2024
Challenging the New Deal’s “Contemptible Neglect”
In the midst of the Great Depression, one CIO union used the new administrative state to influence legislation on behalf of people considered outcasts.
by
Jarod Roll
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Nonsite
on
September 21, 2024
Why America Is Just Now Learning to Love Thaddeus Stevens, the 'Best-Hated Man' in U.S. History
The Pennsylvanian was one of America’s greatest heroes. Why hasn’t he gotten his due?
by
Tracy Schorn
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Smithsonian
on
November 30, 2023
The Blindness of Colorblindness
Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.
by
Ira Katznelson
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Boston Review
on
February 6, 2023
The Unreconstructed Radical
Thaddeus Stevens was a fierce opponent of the “odious” compromises in the Constitution, and of the North’s compromises after the Civil War.
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Richard Kreitner
via
The Baffler
on
May 13, 2021
The Ill-Fated Idea to Move the Nation's Capital to St. Louis
In the years after the Civil War, some wanted a new seat of government that would be closer to the geographic center of a growing nation.
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Livia Gershon
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Smithsonian
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April 22, 2021
St Patrick's Day: Why So Many US Presidents Like to Say ‘I’m Irish’
Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.
by
Richard Johnson
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The Conversation
on
March 16, 2021
The Radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.
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Matthew E. Stanley
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Jacobin
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March 1, 2021
Fanne Foxe, ‘Argentine Firecracker’ at Center of D.C. Sex Scandal, Dies at 84
She ran from the car of a powerful congressman and dove into the Tidal Basin in 1974, generating a splash that would ripple into a political cause celebre.
by
Adam Bernstein
via
Washington Post
on
February 24, 2021
The 40-Year War
William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight.
by
Brad Miller
via
The American Prospect
on
September 9, 2019
Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee
She saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.
by
David Stein
via
Boston Review
on
May 16, 2017
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