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Bell in 1980. He handled civil-rights cases, then came to question their impact.

The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 10, 2021

The book cover for Vice Patrol

Vice, Vice, Baby

The history of patrolling sex in public.

by Max Fox via Bookforum on September 7, 2021

Marine handing water to evacuees

The End Of Nation-Building

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.

by Timothy Nunan via Noema on August 24, 2021

Painting of the Continental Congress

The Pursuit of Happiness: New Approaches to the American Revolutionary Past

A new way to think about the American Revolution.

by Kevin Diestelow via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on June 28, 2021

Political cartoon of women marching in Revolutionary War costumes, waving a flag that says "Constitutional Amendment"

The 1940s Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment Was Bipartisan and Crossed Ideological Lines

Support for and opposition to the ERA are not positions that are fundamentally tied to either conservatism or liberalism.

by Rebecca DeWolf via HNN on May 2, 2021

A man walks amongst deteriorating giant busts of U.S. presidents.

Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

by Doug Henwood via Jacobin on April 21, 2021

FDR with eyes crossed out with red line

Is It Time to Cancel FDR?

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

by Michael Lind via Tablet on April 11, 2021

Daryl Michael Scott.

"Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth"

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

by Daryl Michael Scott, Len Gutkin via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10, 2021

Cleo Davis and Kayin Talton Davis are artists and activists who have made it their mission to preserve and celebrate African American history in Portland. Here, their daughter, Ifetayo Davis, stands with her father and sisters outside their home.

Oregon Once Legally Banned Black People. Has the State Reconciled its Racist Past?

Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.

by Nina Strochlic via Process: A Blog for American History on March 8, 2021

Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Against the Consensus Approach to History

How not to learn about the American past.

by William Hogeland via The New Republic on January 25, 2021

The Puritans Are Alright

A review of "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America."

by Ed Simon via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 16, 2020

How Americans Came to Distrust Science

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust requires confronting those arguments head on.

by Andrew Jewett via Boston Review on November 2, 2020

I Asked 5 Fascism Experts Whether Donald Trump Is a Fascist.

The verdict was unanimous.

by Dylan Matthews via Vox on October 30, 2020

Police officer cleaning a statue of Winston Churchill

We All Think History Will Be on Our Side. Here's Why We Shouldn't Rely on That Assumption.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

by Priya Satia via TIME on October 20, 2020

A white picket fence

Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.

by David R. Roediger via Literary Hub on September 28, 2020

The Glorious RBG

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.

by Irin Carmon via Intelligencer on September 18, 2020

The Revolutionary Thoreau

Generations of readers have chosen to emphasize Thoreau's spiritual communion with Nature, but Walden begins with trenchant critique of “progress.”

by R. H. Lossin via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2020

The Wages of Whiteness

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.

by Hari Kunzru via New York Review of Books on September 3, 2020

‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives

How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.

by Annelien de Dijn via TIME on August 25, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020

Beyond the End of History

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 14, 2020

A pen and ink portrait of Alexander Hamilton as Treasury Secretary.

A New Hamilton Book Looks to Reclaim His Vision for the Left

In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.

by Ryan Grim via The Intercept on August 4, 2020

John Muir and Race

Environmental historian Donald E. Worster pushes back against recent characterizations of Muir as a racist.

by Finn Cohen, Donald E. Worster via California Sun on July 29, 2020

A line of Black men sit and stand in a half circle. They all where Pullman Porter uniforms.

How Black Pullman Porters Waged a Struggle for “Civil Rights Unionism”

Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.

by Eric Arnesen, Arvind Dilawar via Jacobin on July 28, 2020

J.F.K.’s “Profiles in Courage” Has a Racism Problem. What Should We Do About It?

Kennedy defined courage as a willingness to take an unpopular stand in service of a larger, higher cause. But what cause?

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on July 23, 2020

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

by Brent Cebul via Boston Review on July 22, 2020

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.

The Nativist Tradition

Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.

by Joel Suarez via Dissent on July 6, 2020

Seattle police dressed in riot gear, standing in front of graffiti that reads "abolish the cops."

Police Reform Hasn't Stopped the Killings Before. It Won't Now Either.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

by Garrett Felber via Truthout on July 5, 2020

Why We’ll Never Stop Arguing About Hamilton

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

by Aja Romano via Vox on July 3, 2020

If This Is Like 1968, Then Trump Is in Big Trouble

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 2, 2020

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