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Photograph of abortion pro-choice activists demonstrating outside the Supreme Court.

Originalists are Misreading the Constitution’s Silence on Abortion

The originalist case for lifting abortion restrictions.

by Laura Briggs via Made By History on May 3, 2022

Painting of George Washington in New York, 1783, surrounded by a crowd.

The Many American Revolutions

Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on April 4, 2022

Portrait of Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

The Women in Ben Franklin's Life Tell a Fuller Story of the Founder

Uncovering the fallacy of his iconic image as a man ruled by solely by reason and logic.

by Nancy Rubin Stuart via HNN on March 27, 2022

Portrait of George Washington on a horse.

Declaring War

Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?

by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on March 2, 2022

A political cartoon lampooning the “robber baron” monopolists’ exploitation of laborers, 1883

When Americans Liked Taxes

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

by Gary Gerstle via New York Review of Books on February 23, 2022

Class photo, Geyer, Ohio, 1915

Lessons from the History Textbook Wars of the 1920s

A century ago, pundits, special interests, and politicians weighed in on what should and shouldn't be taught in history and social studies courses.

by Bruce W. Dearstyne via HNN on February 20, 2022

Cracked wall.

The Danger of a Single Origin Story

The 1619 Project and contested foundings.

by Emily Sclafani via Perspectives on History on February 9, 2022

Republicans Are Moving Rapidly to Cement Minority Rule. Blame the Constitution.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

by Corey Robin via Politico Magazine on January 5, 2022

Illustration of bishops titled "The Mitred Minuet"

No Bishops, No Kings: Religious Iconography and Popular Memory of the American Revolution

Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.

by J. L. Tomlin via Age of Revolutions on December 6, 2021

Painting of British soldiers surrendering their arms to George Washington.

The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington's Slave Roundup

History books remember Yorktown as a "victory for the right of self-determination." But the battle guaranteed slavery for nearly another century.

by Gregory Urwin via Journal of the American Revolution on October 19, 2021

Mitch McConnell

How Did the Senate End Up With Supermajority Gridlock?

The Constitution meant for Congress to pass bills by a simple majority. But the process has changed over the decades.

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Governing on October 13, 2021

Close up illustration of Frederick Douglass

An American Conception of Justice

Historians have demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation of the U.S. But many of those same ideas have also been vital to combating white supremacy.

by Michael Kazin via Dissent on August 30, 2021

Picture of the "Words That Made Us."

Context and Consequences

On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us,” a new history of America’s constitutional conversation.

by Joel Seligman via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 3, 2021

Building saying "In God We Trust"

How 'In God We Trust' Bills are Helping Advance a Christian Nationalist Agenda

'In God We Trust' became the national motto of the US on July 30, 1956. Since then, it has been used to forward a conservative Christian agenda.

by Kristina M. Lee via The Conversation on July 16, 2021

Joe Biden surrounded by words emanating from a book.

Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By A President Who Loves Jon Meacham?

How a pop historian shaped the soul of Biden’s presidency.

by Kara Voght via Mother Jones on April 2, 2021

A small wooden house with smoke rising from the roof, framed by bright red and green fall foliage and green grass.

Graves of Enslaved People Discovered on Founding Father's Delaware Plantation

A signee of the U.S. Constitution, John Dickinson enslaved as many as 59 men, women and children at one time.

by Nora McGreevy via Smithsonian on March 26, 2021

Senator Joe Manchin

History Reveals That Getting Rid of the Filibuster is the Only Option

Reforms have only made obstruction the Founders never intended worse.

by Nancy Young via Made By History on March 12, 2021

Senator Chuck Schumer walking to the Senate floor through a room filled with cots in preparation for an all-night debate in an attempt to break a Republican filibuster, July 2007

Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

by Michael Tomasky via New York Review of Books on March 11, 2021

The GOP elephant depicted as falling apart

What Is Happening to the Republicans?

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on March 8, 2021

Wallpaper printed in support of the Constitutional Union Party’s presidential candidate, John Bell, in 1860.

A Constitution of Freedom

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

by James Oakes via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 20, 2021

Why Do American Presidential Transitions Take Such a Ridiculously Long Time?

Horseback travel time is only part of the story.

by Sara Georgini, Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 2, 2020

Massacre in Boston

Knives Out

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

by Sanford Schwartz via New York Review of Books on November 5, 2020

Jessica Serifilippi inside the Schuyler Mansion

Schuyler Mansion Works to Bring Clarity to Alexander Hamilton’s Role as Enslaver

Throughout his career, Hamilton acted as a middleman for his family and friends to purchase enslaved people.

by Indiana Nash via The Daily Gazette on October 24, 2020

COVID-19 particles with the bill of rights written over them

The Forgotten Third Amendment Could Give Pandemic-Struck America a Way Forward

An overlooked corner of the Constitution hints at a right to be protected from infection.

by Alexander Zhang via The Atlantic on October 21, 2020

‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020

Trump speaking in front of Mount Rushmore, stage lit, mountains in night's darkness

Nostalgia and the Tragedy of Trump's Speech at Mount Rushmore

In a recent speech, Trump looks to America's past for answers. However, the history he recounts is glaringly limited.

by John Bodnar via HNN on September 20, 2020

Donald Trump in front of Mount Rushmore

Trump’s Vision for American History Education Is a Nightmare

But it’s one historians know all too well.

by L. D. Burnett via Slate on September 18, 2020

Foreign Support of the American Cause Prior to the French Alliance

Richard J. Werther discusses how being outmanned by the best army in the world led American revolutionaries to look overseas for the help they needed.

by Richard J. Werther via Journal of the American Revolution on September 8, 2020

Racist Litter

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on July 30, 2020

George Washington Invoked Executive Privilege. But He’d Reject Barr’s Version.

Washington supported a much more limited conception of executive privilege.

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Made By History on July 29, 2020

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