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What Trump Is Missing About American History

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.
by Leslie M. Harris, Karin Wulf via Politico Magazine on September 20, 2020
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Trump’s 2020 Playbook Is Coming Straight from Southern Enslavers

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on September 9, 2020

Rendering Judgment on America

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.
by Samuel Gregg via Public Discourse on July 1, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020

FDR’s New Deal Worked. We Need Another One.

Claims that the programs adopted in the 1930s lengthened the Great Depression don’t hold up.
by Noah Smith via Bloomberg on May 15, 2020

What Richard Hofstadter Got Wrong

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.
by Chris Lehmann via The New Republic on April 16, 2020

How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court

The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.
by John Fabian Witt via The New Republic on April 7, 2020
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The Homeless Radical

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jacob Hamburger via Jewish Currents on December 23, 2019

The Tortured Logic of #ADOS

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.
by Hubert Adjei-Kontoh via The Outline on November 21, 2019
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Explaining the Bond Between Trump and White Evangelicals

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.
by Matthew Avery Sutton via Made By History on November 21, 2019
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He Was Trump Before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew Attacked the News Media 50 Years Ago

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on November 8, 2019

Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History

Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
by Kyle Sammin via National Review on October 15, 2019
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What the LAPD Recruitment Ad on Breitbart Says About the Department’s History

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.
by Max Felker-Kantor via Made By History on October 9, 2019

'Evangelical' Has Lost Its Meaning

A term that once described a vital tradition within the Christian faith now means something else entirely.
by Alan Jacobs via The Atlantic on September 22, 2019
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How Slavery Doomed Limited Government in America

It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.
by Philip Klein via Washington Examiner on August 20, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019
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The Radical Roots of Free Speech

Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense.
by Chase Burghgrave, Laura Weinrib via Jacobin on July 25, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?
via Contingent on July 1, 2019

It's Time to Stop Talking About a 'National Divorce'

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.
by Christian Vanderbrouk via The Bulwark on March 21, 2019

In America's Panopticon

Sarah Igo’s "The Known Citizen" examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.
by Katie Fitzpatrick via The Nation on December 6, 2018
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Chronicling the End Times on Tangier Island

Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.
by Mickie Meinhardt via The Bitter Southerner on December 4, 2018
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How Reconsidering Atticus Finch Makes Us Reconsider America

A new book offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character.
by Joseph Crespino, Brandon Tensley via Pacific Standard on October 10, 2018
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Ante Up: The Scales of Power Seen Through Norman Podhoretz’s Eyes

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.
by Frank Guan via The Point on September 29, 2018

Teaching the Rank and File

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.
by William S. Cossen via Jacobin on September 24, 2018

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2018
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Left Behind

J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Steven Stoll's "Ramp Hollow" both remind us that the history of poor and migratory people in Appalachia is a difficult story to tell.
by Nancy Isenberg via New York Review of Books on June 28, 2018

How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics

In an effort to open Congress, they institutionalized a confrontational style that permeates contemporary politics today.
by John A. Lawrence via Politico Magazine on May 26, 2018
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The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018

The Rise of the Victims’-Rights Movement

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 15, 2018

Hyman Minsky’s Views on the “Welfare Mess”

The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.
by Matt Bruenig via People's Policy Project on May 13, 2018
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