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Gerrymandering's Surprising History and Uncertain Future

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.
via Retro Report on October 18, 2021
Man holding poster at U.S. Capitol Riot

The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2021
The raised fists of a crowd of protesters.

We Have to Face History No Matter How Hard We Try to Erase It.

Let’s remember that performative anti-racism is as profitable politically as racism has been.
by Peter Van Buren via The American Conservative on July 5, 2021
People pose in front of the Stonewall Inn on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York, on June 28, 2019.

The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools

In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.
by Gabriel Arana via The New Republic on June 28, 2021

America’s Conflicted Landscapes

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.
by David E. Nye via The MIT Press Reader on April 20, 2021
Senator Joe Manchin III walks through the U.S. Capitol.
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For 100 Years, the Filibuster Has Been Used to Deny Black Rights

The most significant impact of the Senate’s super majority rules.
by John Fabian Witt, Magdalene Zier via Made By History on March 18, 2021
Senator Chuck Schumer walking to the Senate floor through a room filled with cots in preparation for an all-night debate in an attempt to break a Republican filibuster, July 2007

Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.
by Michael Tomasky via New York Review of Books on March 11, 2021
photograph of a woman from a carpeta

A New Photo Exhibit Looks at Decades of FBI Surveillance on American Citizens

A new book shares a cautionary tale of the American surveillance state.
by Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Pia Peterson via BuzzFeed News on January 29, 2021
Ronald Reagan

The Fairness Doctrine Sounds A Lot Better Than It Actually Was

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.
by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on January 27, 2021
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What the Rise of Reagan Tells Us About the Age of Trump

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.
by Nick Burns via New Statesman on October 14, 2020
The Trump family at a public event

Why is the Nationalist Right Hallucinating a ‘Communist Enemy’?

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.
by Richard Seymour via The Guardian on September 26, 2020

The Supreme Court Used To Be Openly Political. It Traded Partisanship For Power.

The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.
by Rachel Shelden via Washington Post on September 25, 2020

‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.
by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020

A Disputed Election, a Constitutional Crisis, Polarisation… Welcome to 1876

Eric Foner sees parallels with our own time but warns that yesterday’s solution would be a disaster.
by Martin Pengelly via The Guardian on August 23, 2020
Woman looking through zoomed-in newspaper.

How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society?

In the 1940s, scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the free press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.
by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on July 11, 2020
Cover of the book These Truths by Jill Lepore.

Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?
by George Blaustein via European Journal Of American Studies on June 30, 2020

A Complete Halt to the Liquor Traffic: Drink and Disease in the 1918 Epidemic

In Philadelphia, authorities faced a familiar challenge: to protect public health while maintaining individuals' rights to act, speak, and assemble freely.
by E. Thomas Ewing via Nursing Clio on May 19, 2020

Patients and Patience: The Long Career of Yellow Fever

Extending the narrative of Philadelphia's epidemic past 1793 yields lessons that are more complex and less comforting than the story that's often told.
by Simon Finger via The Panorama on May 18, 2020
Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on March 25, 2020

Trump's not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.
by Tim Murphy via Mother Jones on December 20, 2019
Mexican tenor Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, La Prensa publisher Ignacio Lozano, and Hollywood actor Antonio Moreno before a performance to benefit the Mexican Clinic in San Antonio

How Three Texas Newspapers Manufactured Three Competing Images of Immigrants

In Depression-era San Antonio, polarized portraits of Mexicans appealed to the biases of readers.
by Melita M. Garza via Zócalo Public Square on December 5, 2019
Trump through a television camera.

How TV Paved America’s Road to Trump

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.
by Sean Illing, James Poniewozik via Vox on November 7, 2019
Abandoned house surrounded by water.

Chronicling the End Times on Tangier Island

Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.
by Mickie Meinhardt via The Bitter Southerner on December 4, 2018

Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Nation on May 21, 2018
Men break ground on the first Public Works Administration project.
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Infrastructure is Good for Business

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?
by Brent Cebul on March 12, 2018
Schoolchildren writing on a chalkboard.
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The New Tax Law Poses a Hidden Threat to American Democracy

Undermining public education will exacerbate polarization and mistrust.
by Johann N. Neem, Tony Tian-Ren Lin via Made By History on January 8, 2018
President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.
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When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.
by Oscar Winberg via Made By History on October 16, 2017

Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular

Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on October 3, 2017
Still from the Zapruder film made to appear as if it is in the crosshairs of a gun
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Conspiracy Theories and Fake News from JFK to Pizzagate

Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories -- from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate -- and what they can tell us about the world today.
via Retro Report on April 28, 2017
A painting of Boston harbor, where women in dresses stand on a hill, watching ships
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Invisible Cities, Continued

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."
via BackStory on January 22, 2016
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