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Lithograph of John Winthrop.

What We Get Wrong About ‘A City on Hill’

And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.

by Daniel T. Rodgers via Made By History on November 13, 2018

James Baldwin.

James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s

Baldwin's often overlooked final years of activism during the 1980's.

by Aderson François via Black Perspectives on September 20, 2018

Here's Why Republicans' Disturbing Romance With the Racist Confederacy Is so Troubling

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via AlterNet on August 17, 2018

The Dead Kennedys band.

America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys…And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

"I pledge to laugh / At the Flag / Of the United States of America..."

by Will Greer via Tropics of Meta on July 30, 2018

How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.

by Henry Olson via Politico Magazine on June 26, 2017

The White House.

Sociology and the Presidency

In 1979, Carter's "malaise speech," shaped by sociological insights, sought national unity but clashed with Reagan's appeal to individualism.

by Matthew Braswell via The Fifth Floor on October 25, 2013

Reagan at a podium.

Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

by Chris Lehmann via The Nation on March 21, 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

The Carter Doctrine

Carter’s speech heralded a dramatic shift in foreign policy toward a policy of containment of Soviet influence.

via Voices & Visions on January 23, 1980

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