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Cartoon of politicians arguing

The Gilded Age’s Democratic Contradictions

How the late 19th century’s raucous party system gave way to a sedate and exclusionary political culture that erected more and more barriers to participation.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on June 1, 2021

The plough, the loom and the anvil book drawing

In the Common Interest

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.

by Nic Johnson, Chris Hong, Robert Manduca via Boston Review on May 18, 2021

Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940.

Weary of Work

When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.

by Emily K. Abel via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 28, 2021

A group of contestants at an Emeryville walkathon.

Inside the Sketchy Dance Marathon Craze SF's Women Helped Stop

Dance marathons were essentially the Netflix dating show of the Great Depression.

by Greg Keraghosian via SFGATE on April 11, 2021

Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

The Secret Feminist History of the Temperance Movement

The radical women behind the original “dump him” discourse.

by Nina Renata Aron via Medium on March 5, 2021

Rodney King at a press conference surrounded by reporters

Video of the Police Assault of Rodney King Shocked Us. But What Did It Change?

Thirty years after the police beating of Rodney King, it's clear that shock and anger don't translate into meaningful reform.

by Felicia Angeja Viator via Made By History on March 3, 2021

"We the People"; US Constitution

It Would Be Great if the United States Were Actually a Democracy

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

by Aziz Rana, Chris Maisano via Jacobin on February 16, 2021

Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021

A courtroom in Milwaukee, 1930.

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.

by Matthew Clair via The Nation on December 14, 2020

Ruby Bridges

Is the Public Education That Ruby Bridges Fought to Integrate a Relic of the Past?

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education.

by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator, Meg White via The Conversation on November 13, 2020

When Young Americans Marched for Democracy Wearing Capes

In 1880, a new generation helped decide the closest popular vote in U.S. history.

by Jon Grinspan via Smithsonian on November 1, 2020

A Possible Majority

A political history of the present moment.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Dissent on October 27, 2020

Freeville Republic

When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement

When public opinion favored sheltering youth from adult society, the Freeville Republic immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.

by Jennifer S. Light via The MIT Press Reader on October 9, 2020

Artistic photo with american flags

Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on October 6, 2020

Donald Trump and Joe Biden behind podiums during the first presidential debate of 2020

President Trump Gets the Suburbs All Wrong

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.

by Michelle M. Nickerson via Made By History on October 1, 2020

1912 political cartoon of the Aldrich Plan depicted as an octopus with tentacles on a bank, a factory, and a farm while spitting coins into the NYSC.

A Popular History of the Fed

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

by Noam Maggor, Anton Jäger via Phenomenal World on October 1, 2020

Photograph of people lining up to hear arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020

People in formal wear sitting in chairs, listening to a person behind a desk

Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College?

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on September 22, 2020

From Home to Market: A History of White Women’s Power in the US

The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there.

by Ellen Wayland Smith via Aeon on September 17, 2020

Cartoon that shows a man struggling to shake a woman's hand because of her wide skirt.

Lampooning Political Women

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.

by Allison K. Lange via Humanities New York on September 15, 2020

Police and Racist Vigilantes: Even Worse Than You Think

Is Trump a fascist? You should ask the same question of your local police.

by John Knefel via The American Prospect on September 10, 2020

Mother with a laptop, surrounded by noisy children.

Suffrage Movement Convinced Women They Could ‘Have it All’

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.

by Allison K. Lange via Made By History on August 25, 2020

Harry Sternberg’s 1947 visualization of fascism as a three-headed monster.

What We Don’t Understand About Fascism

Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history—and won't help us address our current political crisis.

by Victoria de Grazia via Zócalo Public Square on August 13, 2020

American Revolution-era political cartoon showing elites signing trade document at behest of working-class.

Fight For Economic Equality Is As Old as America Itself

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.

by Daniel R. Mandell via The Conversation on August 4, 2020

What’s New About Free College?

The fight over free education is much older than you think.

by Jay Swanson via Current Affairs on July 8, 2020

Seattle police dressed in riot gear, standing in front of graffiti that reads "abolish the cops."

Police Reform Hasn't Stopped the Killings Before. It Won't Now Either.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

by Garrett Felber via Truthout on July 5, 2020

Liberal Reform Threatens to Expand the Police Power – Just as it Did in the Past

How calls for “real reforms” have resulted in measures that further shield police from real accountability.

by Max Felker-Kantor via HNN on June 28, 2020

NYPD officers in front of an American flag.

There’s Truth in Numbers in Policing – Until There Isn’t

To hold the police accountable for misconduct, data related to police violence must not only become more accessible, it must also become more reliable.

by Carl Suddler via Brookings on June 26, 2020

A lie-in in the road outside of a Pittsburgh jail. Many activists lay in both lanes of the road, some holding signs.

Bail Funds Are Having a Moment in 2020

But today’s activism reflects longstanding commitments to freedom.

by Melanie Newport via Made By History on June 17, 2020

Police officer behind yellow police tape.

Police Reform Won’t Fix a System That Was Built to Abuse Power

The history of American policing shows that it was designed to eat up resources and subjugate the civilian population.

by Stuart Schrader via The Nation on June 12, 2020

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