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Poster featuring a red fist and text "Women Unite"

What Was Women’s Liberation?

The short-lived radical movement within feminism has gotten a bad reputation for centering white women's experiences. Is that deserved?
by Livia Gershon, Sara Evans via JSTOR Daily on September 11, 2020
Painting of men moving the liberty bell.

Our Chief Danger

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.
by William Hogeland via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 1, 2020

‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives

How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.
by Annelien de Dijn via TIME on August 25, 2020

Pulling Down Our Monuments

The Sierra Club's executive director takes a hard look at the white supremacy baked into the organization's formative years.
by Michael Brune via Sierra Club on July 22, 2020
The USS Constitution glides through Boston Harbor.
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Early Americans Knew Better Than President Trump How To Prioritize Health

A public uprising forced Boston to prioritize fighting smallpox over the economy in 1792.
by Andrew Wehrman via Made By History on July 17, 2020
Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on March 25, 2020
Program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in Washington, DC, 1913, featuring a woman on a horse heralding votes for women and leading marchers toward the capitol.

The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.
by Ellen Carol DuBois, Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on March 18, 2020

This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.
by Jane Chong via The Atlantic on January 21, 2020

How One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon

This footnote in New York Public Library history hints at a rich story of power, taste, and the crumbling of traditional gatekeepers.
by Dan Kois via Slate on January 13, 2020

They Wanted to Remake the World; Instead We Got President Trump

Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.
by Beverly Gage via Washington Post on January 10, 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

Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on November 10, 2019
Woman in 18th century dress and hairstyle.

Las Marthas

At a colonial debutante ball in Texas, girls wear 100 pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington. What does it mean to find yourself in the in-between?
by Jordan Kisner via The Believer on October 1, 2019
Photograph of Roy Cohn sitting in a wooden brown and yellow upholstered chair.

Covering for Roy Cohn

A documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.
by David Klion via The New Republic on September 18, 2019
Protester at an "America First" rally.

The Great-Granddaddy of White Nationalism

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.
by Diane Roberts via Southern Cultures on September 18, 2019

America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.
by Tom Holland via New York Review of Books on August 6, 2019

The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.
by Sarah E. Bond via Hyperallergic on July 3, 2019
Sunbathers and picnickers in Central Park.

How Central Park’s Complex History Played Into the Case Against the 'Central Park Five'

The furor that erupted throughout New York City cannot be disentangled from the long history of the urban oasis.
by Maddie Burakoff via Smithsonian on May 31, 2019

Jefferson, Adams, and the SAT’s New Adversity Factor

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 23, 2019

Banking on the Cold War

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Boston Review on March 14, 2019

Where Does Truth Fit into Democracy?

In modern democracies, who gets to determine what counts as truth—an elite of experts or the people as a whole?
by David A. Bell via The Nation on January 24, 2019
Trump and his cabinet sitting around a conference table.
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Why the Power Elite Continues to Dominate American Politics

Presidents of both parties stock their Cabinets with corporate leaders.
by Timothy M. Gill via Made By History on December 24, 2018

Mayberry Machiavelli

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’
by Tom Carson via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

The Archivists of Extinction

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.
by Kate Wagner via The Baffler on October 19, 2018
Collage of paper clippings including headless a running man, an explosion where his head would be, and a jet flying alongside him.

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
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018
Beachgoers speaking to a police officer.

Free the Beach

How seaside towns throughout the northeast limited the ability of ‘undesirables’ to access public beaches.
by Andrew W. Kahrl via Boston Review on May 21, 2018

How Baby Boomers Broke America

Is the Baby Boomer generation to blame for America's crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?
by Steven Brill via TIME on May 17, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.
by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018

"The American People": Current and Historical Meanings

The Founders feared democracy and didn't think too highly of "the people".
by Louis René Beres via OUPblog on April 15, 2018
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