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Political Correctness: How The Right Invented a Phantom Enemy

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.
by Moira Weigel via The Guardian on November 30, 2016
Photos of suffragettes speaking with the title "The Suffragette Face: New Type Evolved By Militancy."

America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women as Unhealthy

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 16, 2016

What White Catholics Owe Black Americans

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.
by Matthew J. Cressler via Slate on September 2, 2016
University of Virginia rotunda
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The Dishonor Code

On violence and disorder in the early years of UVA, and the threat it posed to Thomas Jefferson’s vision for American higher education.
via BackStory on September 26, 2014
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College Costs

Historical perspectives on the money that fuels American higher education, and Americans’ attempts to reckon with the power dynamics that result.

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 27, 2014
Typewriter with keys that have the letters "IA" on each of them.

How Iowa Flattened Literature

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.
by Eric Bennett via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 10, 2014
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The Late Unpleasantness in Idaho: Southern Slavery and the Culture Wars

Culture warriors envision a future in which the educational power of universities will be harnessed to the propagation of a “biblical worldview” nationwide.
by William L. Ramsey via HNN on December 19, 2004
Albert Einstein collage photo with scientific diagrams.

Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics

The physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.
by Joshua Bennett via The Atlantic on January 2, 2026
Directors Sarah Botstein and Ken Burns look at a bust of George Washington

Ken Burns’s Wake-Up Call

Ken Burns’s newest docuseries may have its shortcomings, but others looking to tell the story of the Founding could learn from his attention to detail.
by Susan Brynne Long via Law & Liberty on December 15, 2025
Thyra J. Edwards

An Antifascist Education

Black women’s radicalism has been fascism’s enemy for 200 years.
by Jeanelle K. Hope via Lux Magazine on December 4, 2025
Illustration of Rudolph Fisher sitting and typing.

Renaissance Man

Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem.
by Harriet Washington via The American Scholar on December 1, 2025
A collage of censored obscenities and the front page of the Dartmouth Review.

Before Trump, and Before the Young Republicans, There Was the Dartmouth Review

Long before Trump, a group of Dartmouth students weaponized outrage and satire to seize the spotlight.
by Rich Barlow via Politico Magazine on October 21, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive President and the AHA

Theodore Roosevelt and the historical discipline.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via Perspectives on History on October 14, 2025
William Franklin

Why Did Benjamin Franklin’s Son Remain Loyal to the British?

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.
by Stacy Schiff via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025
Covers of editions of "The Best American Poetry."

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’

As "The Best American Poetry" anthology ends after nearly forty years, the contradictions of its influence stand out.
by Nick Sturm via Defector on September 30, 2025

The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

And the end of civilisation.
by James Marriott via Cultural Capital on September 19, 2025
Georgia Bulldog Football team warms up at their stadium.

A Historian’s Notes on College Football’s New Money Era

College football’s NIL era has freed athletes but fueled chaos, soaring costs, and fan backlash.
by James C. Cobb via Zócalo Public Square on September 18, 2025
Minerva Parker Nichols; the New Century Club building she designed in Philadelphia.
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(Re)discovering Minerva Parker Nichols, Architect

The first American woman to establish an independent architectural practice, Minerva Parker Nichols built an unprecedented career in Philadelphia.
by Kelly Hayes McAlonie, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Margaret Lester, Ashley Gardini via JSTOR Daily on August 12, 2025
Lionel Trilling photographed by Walker Evans in the 1950s.

Colony, Aviary and Zoo: New York Intellectuals

A new book examines the aggressive masculinity that the editors of the Partisan Review brought to their art and literary criticism.
by David Denby via London Review of Books on July 3, 2025

Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi

A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?
by Margaret McMullan via The Bulwark on June 24, 2025
William F. Buckley during a press interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1970s. (Alamy)

Steering Right

Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of William F. Buckley has certain limitations, but it captures the character of conservatism’s founding father.
by John O. McGinnis via Law & Liberty on June 19, 2025
Image of where the rust belt is located on a US map

Economic Mobility, Not Manufacturing Decline, Is the Real Rust Belt Story

A look at popular interpretations and actual labor fluctuations in the Rust Belt over time.
by Norbert Michel, Jerome Famularo via Cato Institute on June 12, 2025
Political cartoon of General Jackson Slaying the Many Headed Monster (the Second National Bank).

The Ghost of Nicholas Biddle

Trump’s war against elite academia has created an uncanny parallel to the most dramatic fight in Jackson’s day—the attack on the 2nd Bank of the United States.
by Adam Rowe via Compact on June 2, 2025
Texas Southern University marching band.
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The Storied History of HBCU Marching Bands

Marching bands at historically Black colleges and universities can be seen as both celebratory emblems and complicated arbiters of Black American culture.
by Betsy Golden Kellem via JSTOR Daily on April 24, 2025
Photo of William F. Buckley Jr.

The Pen Is Mightier

Eight ways to understand the literary-political impact of William F. Buckley Jr.
by Steven Hayward via Political Questions on April 15, 2025
Book Cover of "An Ordinary White."

Basic Stuff About Reality

On David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 28, 2025
People attending a teach-in.

A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.
by Robert Cohen via Inside Higher Ed on March 21, 2025
Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979.
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Indifferent to the Fate of Freedom Elsewhere

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.
by Will Teague via HNN on March 11, 2025
Shackles with a magnifying glass on the end.

How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy

Who decides how history gets written?
by Scott Spillman via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 4, 2025
Cover of The Moving Image by Peter Kaufman.

The Power of the Moving Image

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.
by Peter B. Kaufman via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 11, 2025
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