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Political cartoon depicting the menace of monopolies and trusts (1899)

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020

Pro-Trump protester.

The True Danger of Trump and His Media Allies Denying the Election Results

Misinformation and conspiracy theories can foment violence and thwart democracy.

by William Horne via Made By History on November 19, 2020

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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

Joseph McCarthy presenting a map.

The Real Legacy of a Demagogue

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

by Dan Kaufman via The New Republic on October 2, 2020

A parade of people carrying American flags and Nazi Germany flags, black and white, New York 1937.

Operation Paperclip and Nazis in America

The two decades leading up to WWII featured numerous connections between America and Nazi Germany that reveal Nazism was never simply a foreign or enemy force.

by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on September 20, 2020

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This Soldier’s Witness to the Iraq War Lie

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.

by Frederic Wehrey via New York Review of Books on September 15, 2020

Illustration of 9/11 inside outline of girl

The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020

How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 11, 2020

Black soldiers in uniform and winter gear pose for a photo at Fort Keogh, Montana, in 1890.

‘America’s Black Dreyfus Affair’ and the Long Battle to Right Teddy Roosevelt’s Wrong

167 Black soldiers were dishonorably discharged from the army in 1906. Two Angelenos corrected the historical record in the 1970s.

by Julia Bricklin via Zócalo Public Square on July 13, 2020

Two pool chairs next to an indoor pool decorated to look like a tropical island beach.

Deceptively Bright, in an Up and Coming Area

Private bunkers and the people who build them.

by Will Wiles via Literary Review on July 1, 2020

The Mainstreaming of Christian Zionism Could Warp Foreign Policy

How the history of dispensationalism shapes U.S. foreign policy today.

by Jeffrey Rosario via Made By History on June 30, 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

The Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.

An American Outbreak of Death and Panic

On the eve of America’s Bicentennial, a mysterious illness terrifies the country and sends disease detectives racing the clock to find answers.

by Alexandra Coria via Medium on March 30, 2020

Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher.

Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. That Trope Has a Troubling History.

Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.

by Mia Brett via Made By History on March 28, 2020

Coronavirus: Lessons From Past Epidemics

Dr. Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, says past epidemics can teach us to fight coronavirus.

via Retro Report on March 20, 2020

Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Plot Was Real After All

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected.

by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on January 21, 2020

Pioneers of American Publicity

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020

Presidents Madison and Trump Did the Same Thing — but Trump Got Impeached

Why criminalizing political opposition can be dangerous.

by Tyson Reeder via Made By History on January 15, 2020

Preaching a Conspiracy Theory

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

by Allen C. Guelzo via City Journal on December 8, 2019

Trump displaying a table of reciprocal tariffs.

The Dangers of President Trump’s Favorite Word — Reciprocity

The Gilded Age roots of Trump's trade philosophy.

by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on November 5, 2019

Disinfo Redux

Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.

by Laura Thorne via Columbia Journalism Review on November 1, 2019

9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

"I get teary-eyed with my students."

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 10, 2019

Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."

by Asif Siddiqi via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 28, 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

The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.

by James Oakes via The Nation on July 15, 2019

Back When American Fascism Was Bad

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.

by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on July 10, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

The inside of the CIA museum.

Notes from the Attic

Displaying the material history of the CIA.

by Mahan Moalemi via Cabinet on November 7, 2018

Four Ku Klux Klan members wearing robes and hoods.

The Ku Klux Klan and America’s First "Fake News" Crisis

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

by Matt Ford via The New Republic on October 30, 2018

Breaking News

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.

by Michael Massing via The Nation on September 27, 2018

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