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John F. Kennedy shaking hands with Lyndon Johnson and Walter George

Samuel Moyn Can’t Stop Blaming Trumpism on Liberals

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

by Jonathan Chait via Intelligencer on September 7, 2023

Wood engraving of streets and buildings in a city scene.

The World That Municipal Socialists Built

Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.

by Justin H. Vassallo via Dissent on September 5, 2023

Isaiah Berlin

Cold War Liberalism Returns

A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.

by Patrick Iber via Dissent on September 5, 2023

Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge.

“One of the Greatest in US History”: The Friendship Between Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

The relationship between two true believers in American exceptionalism.

by Laurence Jurdem via Literary Hub on July 28, 2023

Covers of popular history books.

Who Is History For?

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on July 25, 2023

Axe chopping down columns

The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 17, 2023

Golda Meir.

One of Those Extremists

A feminist perspective on the first and only female prime minister of Israel.

by Seth Anziska via London Review of Books on July 13, 2023

Discolored painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Here Are 10 Shockingly Radical Things the Founding Fathers Said

The Founding Fathers made startlingly progressive statements that didn’t make it into popular history.

by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on July 4, 2023

Adam Smith (left), George Stigler (center), Milton Friedman (right), Hyde Park streetscape in the background.

The Localist

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

by Jonathan Levy via Boston Review on June 28, 2023

Supreme Court justice swearing in FDR at inauguration.

When FDR Took On the Supreme Court

The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?

by John Fabian Witt via The Nation on June 27, 2023

Senator Joseph McCarthy (left) during the Army-McCarthy hearings, with Pvt. G. David Schine (center) and Roy Cohn (right), June 7, 1954, in Washington, DC.

McCarthyite Laws Targeting Leftists Are Still on the Books Across the Country

Communists were excluded from an Oklahoma Pride festival recently, a reminder of how easily the Red Scare’s mechanisms for state repression can be revived.

by Liza Featherstone via Jacobin on June 20, 2023

A photograph of Josephine Herbst overlaid on a newspaper article she wrote titled "The Soviet in Cuba."

How Josephine Herbst, 'Leading Lady' of the Left, Chronicled the Rise of Fascism

During the interwar years, the American journalist reported on political unrest in Cuba, Germany and Spain.

by Sarah Watling via Smithsonian on May 8, 2023

Governor George Wallace stands defiant at the University of Alabama.

A View of American History That Leads to One Conclusion

For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.

by George Packer via The Atlantic on March 8, 2023

Illustration of the word Facism, divided by various speach bubbles.

Does American Fascism Exist?

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

by Daniel Bessner via The New Republic on March 6, 2023

The cover of "Sectionalism and American Political Development: 1880-1980"

Sectional Industrialization

Political scientist Richard Bensel explains the feedback loops between policy commitments of political elites and the regional distribution of political power.

by Justin H. Vassallo, Richard Franklin Bensel via Phenomenal World on January 7, 2023

Wide view of past members in the House of Representatives.

What History Tells Us About Kevin McCarthy’s Chances

One hundred years ago, a strong leader brought House rebels to the table to elect a speaker. Can McCarthy do the same?

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 5, 2023

East Asian print of musicians entertaining elites.

A Means to an End

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

by Michael D. Hattem via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 23, 2022

How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable

An overhyped new paradigm proved to be a slogan without a movement.

by Lily Geismer via The Nation on December 12, 2022

Drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, of the "Inside View of the Public Library," Cambridge, 1809.

A Library by the Book

For its ubiquity and richness, the American library building stands as a reflection of the country’s enlightened calling.

by James Panero via The New Criterion on November 11, 2022

Manifest Destiny painting by Emanuel Leutze

No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism

Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.

by Eran A. Zelnik via The Activist History Review on November 8, 2022

Eric Foner sits in an arm chair on stage during an interview, holding a microphone.

“Originalism Is Intellectually Indefensible”

On the persistent myth of the colorblind Constitution that the Supreme Court's conservatives have embraced.

by Eric Foner, Cristian Farias via Balls And Strikes on October 28, 2022

Congressional candidate and civil rights activist Julian Bond on primary election night in Atlanta, Georgia, surrounded by microphones.

Atlanta, Georgia, Was a Center of Anti-Apartheid Organizing

The common picture we get of the US South is one of resolute conservatism. But the region has a radical history, too.

by Zeb Larson via Jacobin on October 10, 2022

Timeline of the history of American political parties to 1880, depicting intertwined streams of Democrats, Whigs, and Republicans.

What is Political Realignment?

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the shifting sands of American politics.

by Kathryn Ostrofsky on September 8, 2022

Painting of a plantation.

The Old South Shall Rise Again

On the economic system of Silicon Valley.

by Victor Davis Hanson via The New Criterion on August 24, 2022

Architectural drawing of Boston Harbor from above.

Who Profits?

How nonprofits went from essential service providers to vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.

by Justin H. Vassallo via The Baffler on July 25, 2022

Drawing of a crowd of delegates at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. (Franklin McMahon / Getty Images)

A Big Tent

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

by Nicholas Lemann via The Nation on July 11, 2022

Francis Fukuyama

Last Man Standing

Francis Fukuyama pines for that old-time liberalism.

by Michael Brenes via The Baffler on June 27, 2022

Early 20th-century women sitting with tea and a guitar.

Secret, Unruly, and Progressive: The History of the Heterodoxy Women’s Club

Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism.

by Joanna Scutts via Literary Hub on June 10, 2022

People talking about a neighborhood map, from the cover of Claire Dunning's book "Nonprofit Neighborhoods."

Grantmaking as Governance

A new book examines how the US government funded the growth of — and delegated governance to — the nonprofit sector.

by Benjamin Soskis via Stanford Social Innovation Review on May 26, 2022

President William Howard Taft signs New Mexico into statehood at the White House. The signing was witnessed by dignitaries on Jan. 6, 1912

Building Uncle Sam, Inc.

These Progressive Era Republicans wanted to run the Federal government like a business.

by Paul Moreno via Law & Liberty on May 25, 2022

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