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Remains of an elephant preserved at the US National Museum.

How Moderate Republicans Went Extinct

On Nelson Rockefeller and the disappearance of moderate Republicans from American politics.

by Henry M. J. Tonks via Public Seminar on September 18, 2024

Aaron Henry of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation speaks at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

60 Years Ago, Courage Confronted Racism at the Democratic Convention

My grandmother and the fight over the 1964 Mississippi delegation.

by Margaret McMullan via The Bulwark on August 21, 2024

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the Democratic National Convention in 1964.

The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question

Is this America?

by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on August 17, 2024

Chief Justice Earl Warren (left), President Richard Nixon (center), and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right).

I Argued ‘U.S. v. Nixon.’ The Supreme Court’s New Ruling on Presidential Immunity Appalled Me.

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.

by Philip Allen Lacovara via The Bulwark on July 8, 2024

1924 Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden.

Why the 1924 Democratic National Convention Was the Longest and Most Chaotic of Its Kind

A century ago, the party took a record 103 ballots and 16 days of intense, violent debate to choose a presidential nominee.

by Eli Wizevich via Smithsonian on June 24, 2024

Uncle Sam on ladder hanging up Postal Savings Bank sign

A People’s Bank at the Post Office

The Postal Savings System offered depositors a US government-backed guarantee of security, but it was undone by for-profit private banks.

by Matthew Wills, Christopher W. Shaw via JSTOR Daily on April 16, 2024

Women march for free abortion on demand.

Abortion On Demand

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

by Gillian Frank via The Revealer on April 4, 2024

People holding signs supporting Alfred E. Smith at the 1924 Democratic Convention

Lessons from the 1924 Democratic Convention: An Immigration Debate's Impact

Immigration has been a defining issue in a campaign before, and the consequences transformed the Democratic Party.

via Retro Report on March 14, 2024

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., left, announcing that he is nominating Kimberly Teehee, right, as a Cherokee Nation delegate to the US House of Representatives

One of the Oldest Broken Promises to Indigenous Peoples Is for a Voice in Congress

A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.

by John Nichols via The Nation on November 14, 2023

Join, or Die , a 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin.

A Shotgun Wedding

Barely-disguised hostilities sometimes belied the rebels’ declared identity as the United States of America.

by Lynn Uzzell via Law & Liberty on November 9, 2023

English representative Lord Winterton delivers a speech at the Evian Conference, 1938.

Inside America’s Failed, Forgotten Conference to Save Jews from Hitler

Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in France in 1938, as the Holocaust loomed. It remains “an indelible stain on American and world history.”

by Gordon F. Sander via Retropolis on July 15, 2023

Drawing of slave auction

Why Did Governments Compensate Slaveholders for Abolition?

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

by Yesenia Barragan via Zócalo Public Square on June 19, 2023

Daniel Ellsberg speaking at a press conference, 1972.

Daniel in the Lion's Den

On the moral courage of Daniel Ellsberg.

by Erik Baker via The Baffler on June 17, 2023

A man speaking to a veteran.

Treason Made Odious Again

Reflections from the Naming Commission, and the front lines of the army's war on the Lost Cause.

by Connor Williams via Muster on May 30, 2023

Painting of Milwaukee

Milwaukee Socialists' Triumph & Global Impact

On April 5, 1910, the world was stunned by socialists’ victory at the ballot box in Milwaukee.

by Shelton Stromquist via Public Books on April 5, 2023

Four men gather around a horse drawn cart carrying newspapers from Philadelphia, New York and Maryland.

There’s Already a Solution to the Crisis of Local News. Just Ask This Founding Father.

As modern lawmakers consider various means of public assistance for local news, they can learn from the founders’ approach to supporting journals and gazettes.

by Steven Waldman via Politico Magazine on April 2, 2023

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley delivering the welcoming address to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on Aug. 26, 1968. BETTMANN ARCHIVE, VIA GETTY IMAGES

How Chicago Got Its Gun Laws

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

by Lakeidra Chavis via The Marshall Project on March 24, 2023

Republicans Have Won the Senate Half the Time Since 2000 Despite Winning Fewer Votes than Democrats

How the Senate has become a bastion of Republican minority rule.

by Stephen Wolf via Daily Kos on February 15, 2023

Graph of tax rates on top marginal earned income vs. long term capital gains, 1918-2020.

Why Is Wealth White?

In the 20th century, a moral economy of “whites-only” wealth animated federal policies and programs that created the propertied white middle class.

by Julia Ott via Southern Cultures on January 30, 2023

Detail from a Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers graphic, 1877.

America’s Oldest Railway Union Must Break With Its Right-Wing Past

Why does the government have the power to break massive union strikes? Part of the story is a history of conciliatory railway unionism.

by Maya Adereth via Jacobin on January 9, 2023

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. with Kimberly Teehee

Cherokee Nation Is Fighting for a Seat in Congress

Thanks to an 1835 treaty, they’re pushing Democrats to approve a nonvoting delegate.

by Gabriel Pietrorazio via The New Republic on October 31, 2022

A faded beige map of New York from the 1700s, showing the city borders and street outlines.

The Manhattan Well Mystery: On America’s First Media Circus Around a Murder Case

The death of Elma Sands and the Manhattan Company.

by Sam Roberts via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022

Black and white photo of Charles Sumner

“A Solemn Battle Between Good and Evil.” Charles Sumner’s Radical, Compelling Message of Abolition

The senator from Massachusetts and the birth of the Republican Party.

by Timothy Shenk via Literary Hub on October 24, 2022

Black and white photo of the “Star-Spangled Banner” flown during the War of 1812, 1914.

A Fiery Gospel

A conversation about changing the American story.

by Lewis H. Lapham, Kermit Roosevelt III via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 19, 2022

A tank on a city street.

U.S. Deliberation During Hungary’s 1956 Uprising Offers Lessons on Restraint

As the war in Ukraine worsens, there’s little debate about Western policy choices. This is a mistake.

by Branko Marcetic via Current Affairs on June 1, 2022

A photograph of John Brown and scraps of his writing.

The Irrevocable Step

John Brown and the historical novel.

by Willis McCumber via The Baffler on May 2, 2022

Artistic collage of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Was Emancipation Constitutional?

Did the Confederacy have a constitutional right to secede? And did Lincoln violate the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves?

by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on April 20, 2022

INTERIM ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES A map of slavery laws in the United States, from 1775 to 1865.

A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended

A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on April 15, 2022

Bill Clinton speaking to a crowd.

How the Democrats Ditched Economic Populism for Neoliberalism

On the pro-business transformation of the Democratic Party.

by Michael Kazin via Literary Hub on March 28, 2022

Illustration of Abraham Lincoln getting ready to give a speech.

Re-imagining the Great Emancipator

How shall a generation know its story, if it will know no other?

by Ralph Lerner via National Affairs on March 21, 2022

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