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By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

David Zucchino on the white supremacist plot to take over Wilmington, North Carolina.

by David Zucchino via Literary Hub on January 9, 2020

Rambo Politics from Reagan to Trump

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

by Bonnie Honig via Boston Review on January 6, 2020

America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared

John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”

by Lee Drutman via The Atlantic on January 2, 2020

"No" on Impeachment Unites Today's GOP. In the 1950s, a Renegade Dared to Break Ranks

Breaking with party unity can be costly. In the 1950's, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine faced backlash after she condemned McCarthy, a fellow Republican.

by Karen M. Sughrue via Retro Report on December 3, 2019

Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on December 2, 2019

The Achievements, and Compromises, of Two Reconstruction-era Amendments

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

by John Fabian Witt via Washington Post on October 31, 2019

President Ronald Reagan speaking to Jerry Falwell Sr. Both men are seated with their legs crossed.

Fundamentalism Turns 100, a Landmark for the Christian Right

Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.

by William Trollinger via The Conversation on October 8, 2019

Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?

“Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.

by Derek Thompson via The Atlantic on September 26, 2019

Demonstrators with signs reading "Impeach Nixon" march toward the U.S. Capitol.

How Watergate Set the Stage for the Trump Impeachment Inquiry

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

by Beverly Gage, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on September 25, 2019

When Adding New States Helped the Republicans

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.

by Heather Cox Richardson via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019

Black and white photo of the Libertarian Party’s 1980 presidential candidate, Ed Clark, center, with his running mate, David H. Koch.

How David Koch’s 1980 Fantasy Became America’s Current Reality

Koch poured $2 million into an embryonic Libertarian Party to buoy his run for vice president. He knew he wouldn't win—but that wasn't the point.

by Adam Eichen via The New Republic on August 27, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.

by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019

Image of the front cover of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump."

Conservatives Before and After Earth Day

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

by James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg via Harvard University Press Blog on April 22, 2019

Calvin Coolidge receiving statue of boy scout.

A Young Appreciation of the Old Right

Calvin Coolidge and others are bringing together student libertarians and trads, but that doesn't make for a coherent coalition.

by Daniel Bring via The American Conservative on April 17, 2019

Political cartoon of Jackson slaying a many-headed hydra of politicians.

When American Politicos First Weaponized Conspiracy Theories

Outlandish rumors helped elect Presidents Jackson and Van Buren and have been with us ever since.

by Mark R. Cheathem via What It Means to Be American on March 28, 2019

Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen via Process: A Blog for American History on March 18, 2019

The Southern Paradox: The Democratic Party Below the Mason-Dixon Line

How the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on February 21, 2019

The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government

What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Atlantic on January 31, 2019

The Unbelievable Story of the Plot Against George Soros

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

by Hannes Grassegger via BuzzFeed News on January 20, 2019

The Case for Impeachment

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on January 17, 2019

Franklin Roosevelt on the campaign trail.

The Left is Pushing Democrats to Embrace Their Greatest President. It’s a Good Thing.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on January 14, 2019

The First Midterm ‘Wave’ Election That Ended Total Republican Control of Government

In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.

by Robert B. Mitchell via Retropolis on November 4, 2018

The Double Battle

A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on October 24, 2018

Electing the House of Representatives

A series of interactive maps showing the results of nearly two centuries of congressional elections.

by Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling via American Panorama on October 15, 2018

Film still of Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.

How Reconsidering Atticus Finch Makes Us Reconsider America

A new book offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character.

by Joseph Crespino, Brandon Tensley via Pacific Standard on October 10, 2018

Drawing of the caning of Sumner.

Raising Cane

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2018

My Fellow Prisoners

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.

by George Blaustein via n+1 on August 29, 2018

James Longstreet's daughter visits his statue at Gettysburg.

The Missing Statues That Expose the Truth About Confederate Monuments

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.

by Kevin Waite via Made By History on August 29, 2018

Football players kneeling in prayer on the field.

Football and the Political Act of Prayer

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.

by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on August 28, 2018

Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.

by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 2018

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