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A group of students demonstrating during a counterprotest to an ongoing anti–Vietnam War rally.

The Right Uses College Campuses as Its Training Grounds

Conservatives love to bemoan their supposed status as oppressed minorities in universities. But the college campus has long been a key site for the Right.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via Jacobin on August 17, 2023
Painting of peasants working fields on one side and socializing with one another on the other side.

The Tragedy of Misunderstanding the Commons

Twelfth-century peasants developed commons practices to survive domination. We could use them to reclaim our lives from capitalism.
by Steven Stoll via In These Times on August 16, 2023
Cover of "Liberalism Against Itself"

Memo to Liberals: The Cold War is Over

In “Liberalism Against Itself,” Samuel Moyn stresses the need to resuscitate an earlier and more rousing wave of thinkers.
by Becca Rothfeld via Washington Post on August 11, 2023
Black students walking a gauntlet of white students to enter Clinton High School.

Why Did They Bomb Clinton High School?

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 31, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg at podium with group in front of U.S. Court House

Daniel Ellsberg Leaked His Vietnam Secrets To Senators First. They Balked.

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.
by Erick Trickey via Retropolis on June 23, 2023
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg leaving the courthouse in a prison van, 1951.

Not How He Wanted to Be Remembered

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.
by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during a signing ceremony to ban conversion therapy.
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Conversion Therapy Is Harmful and Ineffective. So Why Is It Still Here?

Conversion therapies have never been about providing medical or mental care. Instead, they have been a tool to eradicate LGBTQ activism, culture and people.
by Andrea Ens via Made By History on May 15, 2023
Ernest Mandel

Ideological Exclusion & Deportation

Political repression through the suppression of free expression.
by Julia Rose Kraut via Harvard University Press Blog on May 12, 2023
The cover of the United Nations FAO-Unesco Soil Map of the World, 1974.

The Earth for Man

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
by Jo Guldi via Boston Review on May 3, 2023
A cut out from the magazine New Masses with the headline "For College Student H.H.C," pasted over a photo montage of an archive.

“H.H.C.”: The Story of a Queer Life—Glimpsed, Lost, and Finally Found

My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.
by Aaron Lecklider via Slate on April 24, 2023
A hammer is shown breaking several chunks of the earth into smaller pieces. In the background, black space.

The Wonderful Death of a State

For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.
by Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on April 4, 2023
Richard Nixon discusses Vietnam with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Deputy National Security Advisor Al Haig at Camp David, 1972.
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The "Madman Theory" Was Quintessential Nixon

The rash ruse was central to Nixon’s strategy to fight the Cold War, and can also tell us a good deal about the famously elusive ex-president himself.
by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson via HNN on March 26, 2023
Americans with signs and a banner Abdisellam Hassen Ahmed and his family to the US.
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Welcome Corps, the Newest Idea in Refugee Resettlement, Has Deep Roots

The new program might strengthen personal connections to refugees, but history shows there are potential downsides, as well.
by Emily Frazier, Laura E. Alexander via Made By History on March 15, 2023
President Jimmy Carter standing behind a podium.

Jimmy Carter's African Legacy: Peacemaker, Negotiator and Defender of Rights

Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and underappreciated part of his legacy.
by Nancy Mitchell via The Conversation on March 9, 2023
Naomi Oreskes, sitting with her hands resting on her knees

America's Toxic Romance With the Free Market

How market fundamentalists convinced Americans to loathe government.
by Naomi Oreskes, Claudia Dreifus via The Nation on February 17, 2023
KKK march overlaid on J. Edgar Hoover

How Hoover Took Down the Klan

The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.
by Beverly Gage via The Atlantic on November 20, 2022
J. Edgar Hoover.

A Biography That May Change Your Mind About J. Edgar Hoover

Behind his tough image, the longtime FBI director was a man of profound contradictions.
by Kai Bird via Washington Post on November 9, 2022
The Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs addressing a crowd, circa 1910.

How World War I Crushed the American Left

A new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.
by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic on October 18, 2022
Illustration of a fist smashing a tiny blue academic building.

The 50-Year War on Higher Education

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 14, 2022
A girl sits on a cot as she floats it across a flooded street in Baluchistan province on Oct. 4.
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A History of U.S. Interference Worsened Pakistan’s Devastating Floods

Development aid targeted for water as an economic and technical matter had environmental and financial consequences.
by Maira Hayat via Made By History on October 12, 2022
Photo of Ella May Wiggins' five children.

The 1929 Loray Mill Strike Was a Landmark Working-Class Struggle in the US South

Murdered during the 1929 Loray Mill strike, Ella May Wiggins became a working-class martyr—and a symbol of labor’s fight to democratize the anti-union South.
by Karen Sieber via Jacobin on September 14, 2022
Collage of various Republican faces and symbols.

The Long Unraveling of the Republican Party

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Atlantic on September 6, 2022
Governor Ronald Reagan speaking to an audience about the higher education system.

The Origin of Student Debt

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.
by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on August 25, 2022
Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Betty Ford walking away from White House

Regime Change, American Style

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.
by Christopher Caldwell via First Things on May 20, 2022
William F. Buckley Jr. in 1958.

When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short

Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via The Nation on May 18, 2022
Couple kissing at the opening of the Berlin Wall

Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 
by Gary Gerstle, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on April 13, 2022
American Catholic book cover

Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.
by Daniel James Sundahl via The Russell Kirk Center on February 27, 2022
A row of brightly colored newspaper boxes.
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The Black Press Provides a Model for How Mainstream News Can Better Cover Racism

Digging deeper, offering historical context and going beyond official narratives will better serve the audience.
by Olivia Paschal via Made By History on February 17, 2022
From left, Vincent Hallinan, Charlotta Bass and Paul Robeson in California in August 1952
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Black Internationalism Is the Antidote to America’s Love of War

How Charlotta Bass, a Black woman and peace activist, anticipated America’s path to militarism.
by Denise Lynn via Made By History on February 15, 2022
A class in Public School No. 8 on King Street, in New York City, discusses a book titled “We Love America,” brought to school by one of the pupils.

How Picking On Teachers Became an American Tradition

And why spying on the “bums” has been terrible for schools.
by Adam Laats via Slate on January 28, 2022
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