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A painting of George Washington.

What Is Presidents’ Day Actually About?

For most of American history, Washington's Birthday was a really big deal, but that’s changed a lot since the middle of the twentieth century.
Ron Paul.

Libertarians Have More in Common With the Alt-Right Than They Want You To Think

After the alt-right march on Charlottesville, Matt Lewis pointed out the existence of a “libertarian to alt-right pipeline."

When the Idea of Home Was Key to American Identity

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

American History: Fake News That Never Goes Away — and Empowered the Trumpian Insurrection

Only if we face the painful lies we tell ourselves about the past can we hope to overcome what's happening now.
Bill Clinton in front of a poster that reads "New Democrats".

Atari Democrats

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.
Part of a portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Scandalous Legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Collector of Art and Men

Long before the gallery she built was famously robbed, Isabella Stewart Gardner was shocking 19th-century society with her disregard for convention.
Black-and-white illustration of conquistadores with a Native American kneeling before them.
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Making a Myth

A time before “everyone” knew the story of Christopher Columbus, and the role of Washington Irving’s massive biography in creating the heroic Columbus myth.

Before Greed

There was a time when Americans valued 'competency' over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.
Book shelves full of books

Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion

The rise of liberal religion in the United States.
Advertisement for a "Little Orphan Annie" comic book collection. The protagonist, Annie and her dog are in the foreground of the advertisement.

Little Ideological Annie

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.
Inez Milholland with her dog.

Let Us Mate

Proposal advice from Inez Milholland, originally published in the Chicago Day Book, 1916.

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