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Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on July 18, 2019
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression.

Rewarding Risk

Federal deposit insurance and the 1980s bank crisis.
by Kathleen Day via Perspectives on History on April 3, 2019
Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address.

American Uses and Misuses of the Holocaust

Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.
by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on February 8, 2019

African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in WWI Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn't.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.
by Chad Williams via TIME on November 12, 2018
Marques Colston of the New Orlean Saints during a game, Asim Bharwani, Flickr

The NFL and a History of Black Protest

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.
by Louis Moore via Black Perspectives on September 12, 2018
U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Birch Bayh shaking hands.

How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.
by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 28, 2018
Melania Trump wearing a Dior pantsuit.

The 1968 Fashion Show, the History Lesson Melania Missed

What the First Lady could learn from the fashion show that was supposed to showcase America First fashion.
by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell via Politico Magazine on March 5, 2018

The Impossibility of Knowing Mark Twain

Even Twain's own autobiography cannot reveal the whole truth of the literary legend.
by Gary Scharnhorst via The Paris Review on January 9, 2018

The Cold War and the Welfare State

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on December 4, 2017
George Washington statue at Federal Hall

The Next Lost Cause

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.
by Michael Brendan Dougherty via National Review on November 1, 2017

The Invention of Monogamy

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.
by Sarah Mirk, Isabella Rotman via The Nib on October 20, 2017
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?
by Leah Wright Rigueur, Brent Cebul on October 19, 2017
Billy Graham at a speaker's podium (Photo by Ninian Reid).

The Preacher and Vietnam: When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill One Million People

The disclosure of Billy Graham's recommendation of war crimes did not exicte any commotion.
by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair via CounterPunch on September 27, 2017
A plaque in Brooklyn commemorating Robert E. Lee.

It’s Hard to Get Rid of a Confederate Memorial in New York City

At least one monument has come down this summer, but two streets in Brooklyn have proved difficult to rename.
by Robert Sullivan via The New Yorker on August 23, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.
by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

The American Revolution was a Huge Victory for Equality. Liberals Should Celebrate it.

The left is turning its back on the Revolution. Here's why that's a mistake.
by Jeff Stein via Vox on July 4, 2017

Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 11, 2017

The Original Attack Dog

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.
by John Dickerson via Slate on August 9, 2016

Recoil Operation

The U.S. has long supplied the world with AR-15 rifles. But only when we see its grim effects at home do politicians call for restricting its sale.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Inquiry on July 11, 2016
Senator Abraham Ribicoff
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The North’s Shameful Refusal to Face Its Own Tangled Racial Past

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.
by Jason Sokol via HNN on January 5, 2015
Black and white divided star on the cover of "Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker.

The American Dilemma

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.
by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on July 16, 1992
Pickets supporting and opposing a House subcommittee on Un-American Activities hearing in 1964.

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.
by Alan Wald via Boston Review on October 1, 1986
Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, 1958.

Martin Luther King Was a Law Breaker

On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.
by Austin McCoy, Martin Sostre via Martin Sostre Institute on April 1, 1970
A 1960s doctor's office procedure room.

One Woman's Abortion

In 1965, eight years before Roe v. Wade, an anonymous woman described the steps she took to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
via The Atlantic on August 1, 1965

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