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What Would Madison Think of Originalism? Depends When You Asked Him.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.
by Donald J. Fraser via HNN on June 5, 2022
Demonstrators march down a street with a sign for African Liberation.

50 Years Ago, D.C.'s First African Liberation Day Launched a Movement

The annual celebration helped spur an anti-colonial movement for Africa.
by George Derek Musgrove via Retropolis on May 28, 2022
Poster with women pledging to "pay not more than top legal prices" and "accept no rationed goods without giving up ration stamps"

Politics and the Price Level

On inflation, institutions, and the governance of the price level.
by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via Phenomenal World on May 19, 2022
Picture of two warring sides of the abortion debate in a heated exchange.

The Myth That Roe Broke America

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 18, 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
Lithograph of Eastern State Penitentiary from above.

The Invention of Incarceration

Prisons have been controversial since their beginnings in the late 1700s — why do they keep failing to live up to expectations?
by Ashley Rubin, Greg Miller via JSTOR Daily on March 18, 2022
1963 black and white photo of protesters marching for racial equality in Washington D.C.

Just Give Me My Equality

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.
by Teresa M. Bejan via Boston Review on February 7, 2022
illustration of binoculars looking at ivory-billed woodpecker

The Tragically Human End of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker hasn't been seen for decades. The government is ready to declare it extinct—but at what cost?
by Isaac Schultz via Gizmodo on December 22, 2021
The U.S. national debt clock.

Clearing the Air on the Debt Limit

This report clarifies five issues commonly raised in debt limit debates and explores some open questions.
by D. Andrew Austin, Sean M. Stiff via Congressional Research Service on November 10, 2021
Alan Krueger speaks during a press briefing at the White House.

Tragedy Kept Alan Krueger From Claiming a Nobel Prize, but He’s Not Forgotten

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.
by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on October 14, 2021
President Madison ending the Embargo Act cartoon

James Madison and the Debilitating American Tendency to Make Everything About the Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was the reason for Madison and Hamilton's breakup.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on October 11, 2021
Black and white photo of John Maynard Keynes and wife Lydia Lopokova

Left, Right and Keynes

Today's centrists are a hot mess.
by Zachary D. Carter via In The Long Run on September 23, 2021
Biden in front of George Washington painting
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A Conflict Among the Founders is Still Shaping Infrastructure Debates in 2021

What role should the federal government play in building our infrastructure?
by Susan Nagel via Made By History on August 30, 2021
Charles Koch

The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor

How a dark-money mogul bankrolled an astroturf backlash.
by Jasmine Banks via The Nation on August 13, 2021
Statue on blue background

History Was Never Subject to Democratic Control

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?
by Helen Lewis via The Atlantic on August 9, 2021
Janet Robinson and Yolanda Grayson King inside Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

In Virginia, a Historic Black Neighborhood Grapples With Whether to Grow

Some in The Settlement, founded by formerly enslaved people, say development should be allowed to create generational Black wealth while others disagree.
by Antonio Olivo via Washington Post on July 18, 2021
Cover of TIME magazine featuring a redacted textbook and the title "The History Wars"

Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 16, 2021
Socialist deputies march with strikers on February 12 1934.

Feb 6 1934/Jan 6 2021

What do the two events really have in common?
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on July 15, 2021
John Quincy Adams giving speech at U.S. House of Representatives
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Why a Culture War Over Critical Race Theory? Consider the Pro-Slavery Congressional "Gag Rule"

In 1836, the House passed a resolution that automatically tabled all petitions on slavery without a hearing.
by Frank Palmeri, Ted Wendelin via HNN on June 6, 2021
Nurses parading down a city street.

Right All the Way Through: Dr. Minerva Goodman and the Stockton Mask Debate

A 1918 debate offers a portrait of the challenges facing local officials during a health emergency.
by E. Thomas Ewing, Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig via Nursing Clio on April 20, 2021
"House Arrest" report cover

House Arrest

How an automated algorithm constrained Congress for a century.
by Dan Bouk via Data & Society on April 14, 2021
Roger Mudd on the History Channel in August 2001
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The Media Will Be Key to Overcoming a Senate Filibuster on Voting Rights

Roger Mudd proved in 1964 that media attention can help overcome Senate obstruction.
by Donald A. Ritchie via Made By History on April 12, 2021
Martin Luther King Jr.

What Dignity Demands

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.
by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on February 18, 2021
Picture of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

Although he did not openly endorse every one of the many precepts of the antislavery Constitution, Lincoln framed his positions entirely within its parameters.
by James Oakes via Literary Hub on January 13, 2021
A social gathering in 1862

The 19th-Century Roots of Instagram

Social networks existed long before the invention of social media.
by Adrienne Lundgren via Library of Congress on December 14, 2020

The Framers of the Constitution Didn’t Worry About ‘Originalism’

History shows that the text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate.
by Jack Rakove via Washington Post on October 16, 2020
A close up of an electoral map from Scribner’s Statistical Atlas of the United States

The Electoral Punt

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.
by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on September 30, 2020
Ben Cohen giving a presentation

B. R. Cohen on How Food Became “Pure”

On the corrupt, contaminated, deceptive world of 19th-century food adulteration, and how Cohen's own work straddles pure academia and public-facing scholarship.
by David Schleifer, Benjamin R. Cohen via Public Books on September 29, 2020
Painting of a worried child and a despairing mother.

With Friends Like These

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
by Julia Rose Kraut via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 4, 2020
A photograph of Richard Hofstadter in front of a library of books.

Politics, Populism, and the Life of the Mind

An interview with Sean Wilentz on Library of America's new collection of Richard Hofstadter's works.
by Sean Wilentz, Daniel Wortel-London via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 27, 2020
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