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Political cartoon lampooning Thomas Paine and his beliefs

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.

by Ed Simon via The Revealer on December 20, 2018

A Century of American Protest

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.

by Eric Maierson via The New Yorker on November 5, 2018

Illustration of the harmful effects of alcohol on a Seneca village

America's First Addiction Epidemic

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.

by Christopher Finan via Longreads on August 29, 2017

The Anti-Capitalist Woman Who Created Monopoly—Before Others Cashed In

The beloved board game's long-hidden origin story debunks the myth of a male lone genius.

by Mary Pilon via What It Means to Be American on March 27, 2017

Image of enslaved man in chains, with the words "Remember Your Weekly Pledge"

Who Freed the Slaves?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

by Stephanie McCurry via The Nation on September 13, 2016

Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015

Pilgrims going to church armed with guns.

God and Guns

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.

by Patrick Blanchfield via The Revealer on September 25, 2015

A map of the United States divided into regions.

A Balkanized Federation

Without a shared civic narrative – the pursuit of liberal democratic self-government – the rival regional cultures of the United States agree on very little.

via Nationhood Lab

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