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Partisanship is an American Tradition — And Good for Democracy

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.
by Aaron Astor via Made By History on July 12, 2017

The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 3, 2017

Trying to Remember J.F.K.

On the centenary of his birth, seeking the man behind the myth.
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on May 22, 2017
Andrew Jackson

Andy Jackson's Populism

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.
by Robert W. Merry via The American Conservative on May 3, 2017
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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.

What Trump Gets Right—and Progressives Get Wrong—About Andrew Jackson

In the 19th century, Jackson broadened the electorate, but the self-righteousness of some Democrats impedes their efforts to do the same.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic on May 2, 2017

Trump's Predictable Rise

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on April 21, 2017

Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on March 15, 2017
Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Hustle

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.
by Matt Stoller via The Baffler on January 1, 2017

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
by Matt Stoller via The Atlantic on October 24, 2016
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Upheaval at the 1860 Democratic Convention: What Happened When a Party Split

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.
via Retro Report on July 28, 2016
Delegates at a political convention.
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Please (Don’t) Be Seated

The story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and was denied.
via BackStory on July 22, 2016
Ross Perot speaking in front of a banner opposing NAFTA.

End of the End of History, Redux

Remember Perot?
by Frank Guan via n+1 on March 24, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.
by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016

Are Reagan Democrats Becoming Trump Democrats?

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president
by Jeffrey Lord via The American Spectator on August 13, 2015

How Medicare Was Made

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The New Yorker on February 15, 2015

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part I

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 3, 2014
FDR flashing the victory sign.

Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.
by Adam Winkler via The New Republic on December 19, 2012

The Reagan Democrat Delusion

Whenever Democrats lose votes, pundits crow that they've lost the working class. Not so, though they have alienated unions.
by Michael Paarlberg via The Guardian on November 16, 2010
Hard hats on Nixon's cabinet conference table.

When Blue-Collar Pride Became Identity Politics

Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.
by Jefferson Cowie, Joan Walsh via Salon on September 6, 2010
Cartoon of congressmen talking in two insular groups. Illustration by Steve Brodner

The Empty Chamber

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.
by George Packer via The New Yorker on August 2, 2010

Political Construction of a Natural Disaster: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853

The conversation around race after Hurricane Katrina echoed discourse from another New Orleans disaster 150 years before.
by Henry M. McKiven Jr. via Journal of American History on December 1, 2007
William Jennings Bryan, c. 1910s.

All You Need Is Love

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.
by Ronald Steel via New York Review of Books on June 22, 2006
Book cover of "Let the Glory Out: My South and its Politics" by Al Gore

The Chaotic Politics of the South

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.
by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 14, 1972

The Johnson Party

An 1866 essay presents Andrew Johnson as "the virtual leader of the Southern reactionary party."
by E. P. Whipple via The Atlantic on September 1, 1866
John F. Kennedy

Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?

The documents show how CIA spymaster James Angleton hid Oswald’s movements, hid a secret Israeli liaison, and lied to Congress for decades.
by Harrison Berger via The American Conservative on November 28, 2025
Illustration of 18th century lead miners.

Stephen Douglas’ Fictitious Case: Immigrant Voting in Antebellum Illinois

How an Irish immigrant’s 1838 ballot in Illinois sparked a court battle over voting rights for non-citizens.
by Clark North via Muster on November 12, 2025
William James.

Conscription for Peace

William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via Commonweal on November 12, 2025
Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph.

How Mamdani’s Predecessors Built Democratic Socialism

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin’s Freedom Budget is the key to understanding the appeal of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor.
by Harold Meyerson via The American Prospect on October 2, 2025
A phone recording a video of a politician giving a speech.

It’s the Internet, Stupid

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.
by Francis Fukuyama via Persuasion on October 2, 2025
Picture of U.S. capital with the backdrop of the American Flag, with a red reflection.

The Treacherous Allure of the “Polarization” Dogma

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.
by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on September 14, 2025
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