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Max von Sydow and Jason Miller in ‘The Exorcist.’

‘The Exorcist’ & Catholicism

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

by Paul Baumann via Commonweal on October 31, 2023

William F. Buckley Jr.

The Evolution of Conservative Journalism

From Bill Buckley to our 24/7 media circus.

by Johnny Miller via National Review on October 12, 2023

J. Edgar Hoover in front of a stained glass church window

One Bureau Under God

On the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

by Jeanne Theoharis, Lerone A. Martin via Boston Review on October 10, 2023

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Voices from the Wilderness

The actual history of New Deal policies provides little evidence that it was a rollicking success.

by Kevin Schmiesing via Law & Liberty on October 10, 2023

J. Edgar Hoover

How the FBI Aided the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US

It was J. Edgar Hoover who did more than any fire-breathing churchman to turn fearful white suburbanites into the crusaders of a renewed conservative backlash.

by James Robins via New Humanist on October 5, 2023

Woman leading a group of twelve other women in floor exercises.

Fit Nation

A conversation about "the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession."

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Lara Freidenfelds via Nursing Clio on September 27, 2023

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas talking

How Chicago School Economists Reshaped American Justice

The 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking work.

via The Economist on September 7, 2023

John F. Kennedy shaking hands with Lyndon Johnson and Walter George

Samuel Moyn Can’t Stop Blaming Trumpism on Liberals

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

by Jonathan Chait via Intelligencer on September 7, 2023

Shelby Foote with a drawing of a Civil War battle superimposed over him.

The South’s Jewish Proust

Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.

by Blake Smith via Tablet on September 6, 2023

LGBTQ+ Pride balloon arch at parade

Who's Afraid of Social Contagion?

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

by Hugh Ryan via Boston Review on July 31, 2023

A U.S. flag superimposed over a crowd of faces.

Howard Zinn and the Politics of Popular History

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

by Nick Witham via The Chronicle of Higher Education on July 17, 2023

President Theodore Roosevelt raising his hat to wave.

The Curse of Bigness

Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.

by Amity Shlaes via National Review on July 10, 2023

Group of freedmen and women posing for a picture.

How Could ‘Freedmen’ Be a Race-Neutral Term?

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on July 7, 2023

Jacob Duché delivers the first prayer in the Continental Congress, 1774.

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

When drafting the Constitution, our founders had no need of prayer.

by Andrew L. Seidel via Religion Dispatches on July 3, 2023

John Hart Ely.

The Liberal Giant Who Doomed Roe

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

by Caitlin B. Tully via Slate on June 25, 2023

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and typed footnote

Clarence Thomas Went After My Work. His Criticisms Reveal a Disturbing Fact About Originalism.

If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.

by Gregory Ablavsky via Slate on June 20, 2023

Crowd of Black and White workers walking.

Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

by Zak Cheney-Rice via Intelligencer on June 12, 2023

Signs at bus stops in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, telling residents about the availability of the SNAP program.

SNAP Work Requirements Are a Triumph of Politics Over Evidence

Decades of evidence reveals that work requirements for food assistance leave people hungry and hurt the economy. But supporting them remains good politics.

by Lindsay Drane Amaral via Made By History on June 6, 2023

The Freedmen’s Bureau drawn by A.R. Waud, 1868.

Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South

The politicized rhetoric linking race and welfare has a long, ingrained history.

by Ryan W. Keating via Black Perspectives on May 24, 2023

Jonathan Big next to cover of "King: A Life."

Restoring the Real, Radical Martin Luther King Jr. in “King: A Life”

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

by Jonathan Eig, Steve Nathans-Kelly via Chicago Review of Books on May 23, 2023

Director Edward Dmytryk and actress Jean Porter.

The 1950s Hollywood Blacklist Was an Assault on Free Expression

The blacklist didn’t just ruin many workers’ careers — it narrowed the range of acceptable movies and contributed to the conservatism of the 1950s.

by Larry Ceplair via Jacobin on May 18, 2023

Inside Bryan's Museum, with a mannequin dressed as a Texas Ranger.

Those Who Don't Know the Past…

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.

by Josephine Lee via Texas Observer on May 15, 2023

Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

Staten Island, Forgotten Borough

Staten Island gets a lot of disrespect from other New Yorkers, some of it fair. But it has its own fascinating people’s history.

by James Bosco via Current Affairs on April 3, 2023

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

‘Birchers,’ a Well-Told, Familiar Entry in the ‘How We Got to Trump’ Genre

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”

by Sam Adler-Bell via Washington Post on March 22, 2023

Photograph of The Flint River flowing at Sprewell Bluff Park in Upson County.

Jimmy Carter, Protector of Rivers

Jimmy Carter is known as a eradicator of disease and champion for world peace, but he also supported environmental efforts closer to home.

by Grant Blankenship via GPB News on March 15, 2023

1961 pamphlet for Florida's "Americanism vs. Communism" course.

The Long History of Conservative Indoctrination in Florida Schools

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.

by Tera W. Hunter via The Nation on February 27, 2023

Graph of tax rates on top marginal earned income vs. long term capital gains, 1918-2020.

Why Is Wealth White?

In the 20th century, a moral economy of “whites-only” wealth animated federal policies and programs that created the propertied white middle class.

by Julia Ott via Southern Cultures on January 30, 2023

Man in suit with tape over his mouth.

In Florida, Teaching African American History Is Against the Law

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

by John Fea via Current (religion and democracy) on January 20, 2023

Oxford University.

Elite Universities Gave Us Effective Altruism, the Dumbest Idea of the Century

The result has been reactionary, often racist intellectual defenses of inequality.

by Linsey McGoey via Jacobin on January 19, 2023

Norma and Mel Gabler, holding a textbook

50 Years Ago, Anti-Woke Crusaders Came for My Grandfather

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

by Max Jacobs via HNN on January 15, 2023

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