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Painting of the Roman Senate.

Rome's Heroes and America's Founding Fathers

Why the statesmen of the Roman Republic had such an influence on the patriots of the Revolutionary era.
by Paul Meany via Journal of the American Revolution on October 23, 2018

History for a Post-Fact America

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on October 19, 2018

Aquarius Rising

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on September 6, 2018
Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on September 3, 2018

Is Democracy Really Dying?

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on August 20, 2018
The Rev. William Barber, the Rev. Liz Theoharis, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson gather outside of the U.S. Capitol during a Poor People’s Campaign rally in June, 2018.

The Social Gospel Roots of the American Religious Left

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”
by Vanessa Cook via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 31, 2018

The Enlightenment’s Dark Side

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 5, 2018
Thomas Jefferson's library at the Library of Congress.

Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 15, 2018

How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 7, 2018

Borne Back Into the Past

Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'
by Mike St. Thomas via Commonweal on January 4, 2018

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on December 22, 2017

The Uses and Abuses of 'Neoliberalism'

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?
by Daniel T. Rodgers via Dissent on December 13, 2017
Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe at the Lincoln Memorial.

Technocratic Vistas: The Long Con of Neoliberalism

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.
by Jackson Lears via The Hedgehog Review on November 13, 2017

Marx in the United States

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.
by Andrew Hartman, Magnus Møller Ziegler, Tobias Dias via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on October 4, 2017

Mont Pelerin in Virginia

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on September 7, 2017
Colonial Casta painting.

Theorizing Race in the Americas

What are Latin American ideas about race, and how have they been formed in relation to the U.S. and vice versa?
by Francisco Herrera, Juliet Hooker via Black Perspectives on September 7, 2017
Confederate rally.

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on August 14, 2017
Trump speaking.

How the U.S. Lost Its Mind

Make America reality-based again.
by Kurt Andersen via The Atlantic on August 9, 2017

Asking the Tough Questions With an 18th-Century Debate Society

Is polygamy justifiable? Is it lawful to eat swine's flesh?
by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on July 24, 2017

Samuel Huntington, a Prophet for the Trump Era

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.
by Carlos Lozada via Washington Post on July 18, 2017

Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.
by Daegan Miller via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 16, 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

Donald Trump and the 'Paranoid Style' in American (Intellectual) Politics

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.
by Leo P. Ribuffo via The International Security Studies Forum on June 13, 2017
Benjamin Franklin

A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric.
by Thomas S. Kidd via Age of Revolutions on June 5, 2017
Cover of Rafael Rojas' new book.

Words Are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go

A new book recovers long-suppressed alternative politics.
by Patrick Iber via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 28, 2016

The Problem of Slavery

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.
by Scott Spillman via The Point on July 23, 2014
Book shelves full of books

Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion

The rise of liberal religion in the United States.
by Matthew S. Hedstrom via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 29, 2013

Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.
by Donna Gabaccia via Social Science Research Council on July 28, 2006
The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658.

The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."
by Greg Grandin, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on April 21, 2025
Elon Musk holds a chain saw as he shakes hands with Argentine president Javier Milei at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The Method in the Far Right’s Madness

How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.
by Quinn Slobodian, Bartolomeo Sala via Jacobin on April 13, 2025
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