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The Biden-Trump Rematch May Mark the End of an Era
Over the course of U.S. history, presidential rematches have signaled momentous political upheavals.
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Bruce J. Schulman
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Made By History
on
April 4, 2024
The Enduring Power of Purim
Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.
by
Stuart Halpern
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Tablet
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March 21, 2024
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Age Before Duty
What role does age play in determining the status of equals?
by
Darrin M. McMahon
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HNN
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March 19, 2024
Mercy Otis Warren, America’s First Female Historian
At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.
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Nancy Rubin Stuart
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The Saturday Evening Post
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March 18, 2024
At Supreme Court, Corporations Misuse History in Cases on Agency Power
A pair of lawsuits claim that courts were a strong check against federal agency power in early America, but history shows otherwise.
by
Gautham Rao
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Thomas Wolf
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Brennan Center For Justice
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January 16, 2024
When Constitutional-Law Professors Fight
On the folly of relying on history to settle the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment should bar Trump from office.
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William Hogeland
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Hogeland's Bad History
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January 10, 2024
Originalism and the Nature of Rights
When we try to recover the “original meaning” of constitutional amendments, we begin with deeply engrained premises about the nature of what we're looking for.
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Jud Campbell
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The Panorama
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November 27, 2023
Conservatives’ Favorite Legal Doctrine Crashes Into Reality
Originalism is all the rage on the right, but a gun case at the Supreme Court is exposing its absurdity—even to the conservative justices.
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Matt Ford
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The New Republic
on
November 9, 2023
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.
by
Ken Masugi
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Law & Liberty
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November 8, 2023
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What the Supreme Court Gets Wrong About the Second Amendment
Government, wrote Alexander Hamilton, should substitute “the mild influence” of the law for “the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword.”
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Dominic Erdozain
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Made By History
on
November 7, 2023
Hamilton’s System
Who is the father of American capitalism?
by
Jacob Soll
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The Hedgehog Review
on
November 1, 2023
The Revolution Within the American Revolution
Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
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Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
on
October 23, 2023
Reclaiming the American Story
To Heather Cox Richardson, the battle for our history is the battle for our democracy. And we may be nearing the endgame.
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Peniel E. Joseph
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Democracy Journal
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September 18, 2023
Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60
King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change. In many ways, we face the same choice today.
by
Eric Foner
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The Nation
on
August 28, 2023
The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again
The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.
by
Laurence H. Tribe
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J. Michael Luttig
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The Atlantic
on
August 19, 2023
Senator Josh Hawley Tweeted a Christian Nationalist Quote Falsely Attributed to Patrick Henry
It was actually from a 1950s antisemitic and white supremacist magazine. Who cares?
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Seth Cotlar
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Rightlandia
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July 6, 2023
"If America Doesn't Become America": Outlander and the American Revolution
"Outlander" challenges the myth of American exceptionalism at the root of much U.S. popular culture.
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Michelle Orihel
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Age of Revolutions
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July 3, 2023
The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective
When drafting the Constitution, our founders had no need of prayer.
by
Andrew L. Seidel
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Religion Dispatches
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July 3, 2023
Congressional Conflict of Interest
A foundational flaw of the United States.
by
Larry Deblinger
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Arc Digital
on
June 22, 2023
Interposition: A State-Based Constitutional Tool That Might Help Preserve American Democracy
Interposition was a claim that American federalism needed to preserve some balance between state and national authority.
by
Christian G. Fritz
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Commonplace
on
June 1, 2023
Republicans Have Won the Senate Half the Time Since 2000 Despite Winning Fewer Votes than Democrats
How the Senate has become a bastion of Republican minority rule.
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Stephen Wolf
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Daily Kos
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February 15, 2023
The Irish Signatory to the US Constitution Who was Also a Slave-Owner
Other emigrants such as Wolfe Tone did not compromise their principles in unfamiliar environments.
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Finola O'Kane
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The Irish Times
on
January 5, 2023
The Long American Counter-Revolution
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
by
David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
on
December 8, 2022
Why Our Country Is Too Big Not to Fail
Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.
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Matthew Sitman
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The New Republic
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December 6, 2022
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Two Opposing Approaches To Public Health May Be on the Ballot in 2024
Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.
by
Andrew Wehrman
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Made By History
on
December 5, 2022
Originalism Is Bunk. Liberal Lawyers Shouldn’t Fall For It.
The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.
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Ruth Marcus
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Washington Post
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December 1, 2022
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Abortion Initiatives Expose the Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy
Ballot initiatives, referendums, and other forms of direct democracy have a mixed track record of empowering the people.
by
Elisabeth Clemens
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Made By History
on
October 27, 2022
The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
October 26, 2022
The Supreme Court Has Ushered In a New Era of Religion at School
For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.
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Adam Laats
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The Atlantic
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July 15, 2022
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What Would Madison Think of Originalism? Depends When You Asked Him.
The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.
by
Donald J. Fraser
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HNN
on
June 5, 2022
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