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Police officer wearing a mask, arrests a man who lowered his mask to smoke a pipe, in 1918.

The Mask

How the history of the anti-mask and anti-vaccination movements hang together.
by Thomas Schlich, Bruno J. Strasser via Active History on October 10, 2025
Illustration of a Revolution, of a mob holding forks and knives, fighting men on horses.

The Insurrection Problem

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?
by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
National Guard soldiers patrolling in front of the White House.
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History Shows the Perils of Troops Policing American Cities

Sending Redcoats to American cities worked in the short term. But over time, it alienated even the colonists most loyal to the British.
by Donald F. Johnson via Made By History on October 9, 2025
Black and white image of a long road with a car in the distance.

Living in the Shadow of Your Father’s Iconic Song

Sarah Curtis: “Maybe we’ve just learned what my teenage daughter does not yet fully know: that to be held to a law is often to be loved.”
by Sarah Curtis via Literary Hub on October 9, 2025
Nervous stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 2008.
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The 2008 Financial Crisis Explained: Housing Bubble to Bailout

Risky loans, regulatory gaps, and Wall Street practices fueled the 2008 financial crisis and led to the Great Recession.
via Retro Report on September 25, 2025
A collage featuring Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King Jr., and Africa.

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.
by Lovia Gyarkye via The New Republic on September 25, 2025
Robert McNamara.

The War Hawk Who Wasn’t

Newly discovered documents reveal Robert McNamara’s private doubts about Vietnam.
by William Taubman, Philip Taubman via The Atlantic on September 18, 2025
First Houses public housing in New York.

Land Value Politics

What New York City can learn from its past about the potential for urban growth that is not hostage to the preferences of the largest private owners.
by Kim Phillips-Fein, Daniel Wortel-London via Phenomenal World on September 18, 2025
ILGWU parade float bearing the union label, December 7, 1960.

Look for the Union Label

Clothing labels have often played a political role in the fight for the rights of garment workers.
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox via The Saturday Evening Post on September 16, 2025

Absolute Values

Fara Dabhoiwala’s case against free speech.
by Len Gutkin via The Point on September 10, 2025
Illustrated poster of two men building a Sky Scraper

Ben Shahn’s Rough-Hewn Canvases Pulled No Punches

An exhibit at the Jewish Museum reveals an artist for his time — and ours.
by Christian Viveros-Faune via Village Voice on September 8, 2025
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing at Nationals Park in Washington, DC.

The Springsteen Generation

How the Boss provided a 50-year-long soundtrack for the last of the Baby Boomers.
by David Corn via Mother Jones on August 21, 2025
Trump hugging the American flag, superimposed on rows of soldiers with bowed heads.

Trump’s Reckless Assault on Remembrance

The attempts by his administration to control the ways Americans engage with our nation’s history threaten to weaken patriotism, not strengthen it.
by Ed Ayers via The New Republic on August 10, 2025
Billboards advertising the new Superman film in Times Square.

Superman Was Always a Social Justice Warrior

A closer look at the character’s history shows that the latest movie is true to his past.
by Ryan Biller via New Lines on July 25, 2025
Buildings drawing and black and white negative, on the cover of "Yale and Slavery."

What Universities Owe

David Blight's report "Yale and Slavery" considers institutional accountability in the context of a world marked by systemic violence and inequality.
by Vincent Brown via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025
Nicole Hemmer.

The Actual Politics of Free Speech Is Fueled by a Right-Wing Political Strategy

Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.
by Nicole Hemmer via Boston Review on July 22, 2025
Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper reimagined as Atlanta Cop City dripping blood.

From the Atlanta Race Massacre to Cop City: The AJC Incites Harm

The AJC wielded its editorial power to pave the path for Cop City and the 1906 race massacre, directly harming Black Atlantans.
by Aja Arnold via Scalawag on June 11, 2025
Jewish activists hold Passover Seder outside ICE headquarters in New York City to demand an end to Israel's war on Gaza.

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations are part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.
by Benjamin Balthaser, Shane Burley via Jacobin on June 8, 2025
Protestors hold anti-communist picket signs outside of a theatre

The Grim Timeliness of “Noir and the Blacklist”

A new Criterion series of McCarthy-era noir films is a timely collection for an era of rising government repression.
by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on May 4, 2025
Alleged enemy aliens on way to detention camp, Gloucester, New Jersey, 1918.
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The Alien Enemies Act: Annotated

Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on April 25, 2025
Harvard University "veritas" seal displayed on flags on its campus.

Harvard Stood Up to Trump. Too Bad the School Wasn’t Always So Brave.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.
by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on April 16, 2025
Coretta Scott King sitting in front of a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.

America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong

Her ghostwritten autobiography diminishes her, and I found out why.
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Atlantic on April 7, 2025
Josephine Baker and a soldier.

The Superstar Turned Spy Who Fought the Nazis and for Civil Rights

A new book highlights Josephine Baker’s wartime contribution, and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights.
by Jon Henley via The Guardian on April 6, 2025
Stack of Newspapers.

A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking

On underground presses and state violence.
by Aaron Boehmer via Literary Hub on March 26, 2025
People attending a teach-in.

A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.
by Robert Cohen via Inside Higher Ed on March 21, 2025
A crowd of Black children walking into school.

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.
by Noliwe Rooks via Literary Hub on March 19, 2025
Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.
by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 2025
Martin Galvin, of Noraid, standing in front of a crowd of protesting supporters, holding a copy of "The Irish People" newspaper with the headline "Martin Galvin safe after building capture."

There’s a Hidden History of US Support for Irish Republicans

The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles.
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via Jacobin on March 16, 2025
Men work in an FBI office.

FBI and CIA Conducted Illegal Surveillance of 1960s Student Activists in the South

Newly declassified records reveal how paranoia about subversion in conservative states resulted in major constitutional violations.
by Jeremy Kuzmarov via CovertAction Magazine on March 13, 2025
A rally for civil rights outside of the 1964 Republican National Convention.
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“A Party for the White Man”

The scene at the 1964 Republican National Convention, when Barry Goldwater was nominated and black Republicans’ worst fears about their party were confirmed.
by Joshua D. Farrington via HNN on February 25, 2025
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