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Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.
by
Rogé Karma
via
The Atlantic
on
November 25, 2023
Against the Consensus Approach to History
How not to learn about the American past.
by
William Hogeland
via
The New Republic
on
January 25, 2021
They Wanted to Remake the World; Instead We Got President Trump
Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.
by
Beverly Gage
via
Washington Post
on
January 10, 2020
How Social Reactionaries Exploit Economic Nostalgia
Conservatives think we need traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline; But it’s the economic equality created by strong unions that Americans miss.
by
Meagan Day
via
Jacobin
on
May 20, 2025
The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s
On the constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.
by
Samantha Hancox-Li
via
Liberal Currents
on
April 24, 2025
Trails of Tears, Plural: What We Don’t Know About Indian Removal
The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.
by
Jeffrey Ostler
via
Humanities
on
July 2, 2024
In Need of a New Myth
Myths to explain American history and chart a path to the future once helped to bind the country together. Today, they are absorbed into the culture wars.
by
Eric Foner
via
London Review of Books
on
June 26, 2024
The Crack-Up
John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.
by
John Ganz
,
Chris Lehmann
via
The Baffler
on
June 21, 2024
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
by
Julian E. Zelizer
via
The New Republic
on
May 2, 2024
Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism
In which “the intellectual handmaidens of the capitalists” are taken to task.
by
Joseph Stiglitz
via
Literary Hub
on
April 24, 2024
The Birth of Our System for Describing Web Content
Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable.
by
Monica Westin
via
Aeon
on
February 22, 2024
The Forgotten History of American Jewish Dissent Against Zionism
In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.
by
Shaul Magid
via
+972 Magazine
on
February 14, 2024
Free Trade's Origin Myth
American elites accepted the economic theory of "comparative advantage" mainly because it justified their geopolitical agenda.
by
Oren Cass
via
Law & Liberty
on
January 2, 2024
Equal Rights Amendment Was Introduced 100 Years Ago — and Still Waits
America’s feminists felt confident when the Equal Rights Amendment was put before Congress 100 years ago this week. For a century, it’s failed to be enacted.
by
Frederic J. Frommer
via
Retropolis
on
December 12, 2023
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America's War on Drugs Was Always Bipartisan—And Unwinnable
There was really only one big difference between liberal drug warriors and conservative ones.
by
Matthew D. Lassiter
via
Made By History
on
December 7, 2023
Who Is History For?
What happens when radical historians write for the public.
by
David Waldstreicher
via
Boston Review
on
July 25, 2023
The Two Constitutions
James Oakes’s deeply researched book argues that two very different readings of the 1787 charter put the United States on a course of all but inevitable conflict.
by
David W. Blight
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 18, 2023
Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy
The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.
by
Stephen Wertheim
via
Foreign Affairs
on
March 17, 2023
How J. Edgar Hoover Went From Hero to Villain
Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives.
by
Jack Goldsmith
via
The Atlantic
on
November 22, 2022
The Letter That Helped Start a Revolution
The Town of Boston’s invention of the standing committee 250 years ago provided a means for building consensus during America’s nascent independence movement.
by
Livia Gershon
,
William B. Warner
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 2, 2022
The Complicity of the Textbooks
A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.
by
Eric Foner
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 5, 2022
The Tragedy of the American Political Tradition
What prospects are there today for assessing American politics and history from an early Hofstadterian remove?
by
Nick Burns
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
August 15, 2022
The Unbearable Whiteness of Ken Burns
The filmmaker’s new documentary on Benjamin Franklin tells an old and misleading story.
by
Timothy Messer-Kruse
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
April 20, 2022
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
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House Republicans’ Leadership Fight Signals a New Direction
Leadership battles tell us a lot about where a party is headed.
by
Zack C. Smith
via
Made By History
on
May 12, 2021
The Strange Case of Booker T. Washington's Birthday
If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?
by
Bill Black
via
Contingent
on
April 5, 2021
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by
Jeet Heer
via
The Nation
on
October 6, 2020
History Won’t Save Us
Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.
by
William Hogeland
via
The New Republic
on
March 25, 2020
Hail to the Chief
“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”
by
Jed S. Rakoff
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 22, 2018
Science’s Freedom Fighters
Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?
by
W. Patrick McCray
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
November 18, 2018
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