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The Price of Union

The undefeatable South.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on November 2, 2015
Political cartoon depicting children recoiling from Catholic bishops crawling onto the beach with their robes and hats making them look like crocodiles.

When America Hated Catholics

In the late 19th century, statesmen feared that Catholics were something less than civilized (and less than white).
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on September 23, 2015
Black family outside their homestead, Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas.

Exodusters

Migration further west began almost immediately after Reconstruction ended, as Black Americans initiated the "Great Exodus" outside the South toward Kansas.
by Todd Arrington via National Park Service on April 10, 2015

The Polarized Congress of Today Has its Roots in the 1970s

Polarization in Congress began in the 1970s, and its only been getting worse since.
by Drew DeSilver via Pew Research Center on June 12, 2014
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A Big Tent

Exploring the history of the Democratic Party, from its earliest days through the New Deal, the Long Sixties, and the post-Cold War era.
Photograph of two of the original organizers preparing for the first Earth Day (1970). At left, a woman holds up two advertisements for the event. In front, a man stares into the camera (Denis Hayes) while holding a phone.

The Fate of Earth Day

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on April 8, 2013

Birthright

What's next for Planned Parenthood?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 14, 2011

Restarting the Civil Rights Movement

Is there still a civil rights movement?
by E. R. Shipp via The Root on December 19, 2010
George W. Bush at a press conference on Iraq, March 3, 2003.

The First Casualty

The selling of the Iraq war.
by Spencer Ackerman, John B. Judis via The New Republic on June 30, 2003
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George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq

George Kennan discusses the steps that are being taken in regards to the conflict with Iraq and questions President Bush's strategy.
by Albert Eisele via HNN on September 26, 2002
Screen capture of Carter at a podium giving his human right speech to university graduates.

Jimmy Carter Promotes Human Rights

Carter’s speech lays out his commitment to implement human rights into U.S. foreign policy.
via Voices & Visions on May 22, 1977
Poet-playwright and political activist Imamu Amiri Baraka recites his poem, "Its Nation Time," at the National Black Political Convention.
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The Black Political Convention

Black Journal interviews with Imamu Amiri Baraka, poet-playwright and co-chairman of the National Black Political Convention.
by Black Journal via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 28, 1972
Kwame Ture at at a 1966 Mississippi Press Conference. Public Domain.
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Stokely Carmichael Interview

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 21, 1966

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