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What’s Driving So Many Republicans to Support Joe Biden?

The collapse of the Republican Party.
by Geoffrey Kabaservice via Made By History on October 30, 2020

How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 11, 2020

The Past and Future of Latinx Politics

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.
by Ed Morales via The Nation on June 30, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020
Man at Trump rally holding a "Latinos for Trump" sign.

On the Past and Future of Hispanic Republicans

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”
by Geraldo Cadava, Rosina Lozano via Public Books on June 15, 2020
Book cover of "Republican Reversal."

Conservative Ideology and the Environment

“Big money alone does not fully explain the Republican embrace of the gospel of more.”
by Jonathan H. Adler via Regulation on June 1, 2020
Rush Limbaugh sits next to Newt Gingrich during NBC's "Meet the Press" taping on Sunday Nov. 12, 1995.

They Just Wanted to Entertain

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.
by Brian Rosenwald via The Atlantic on August 21, 2019
Barry Goldwater with his finger to his lips sushing the audience.
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How Never-Trump Republicans Went Extinct

Shared enemies and ideology matter more than Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on August 6, 2019

How the Republican Majority Emerged

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.
by Kevin M. Kruse, Dov Weinryb Grohsgal via The Atlantic on August 6, 2019

How Republicans Became Anti-Choice

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.
by Sue Halpern via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2018

Here's Why Republicans' Disturbing Romance With the Racist Confederacy Is so Troubling

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage via AlterNet on August 17, 2018

Taft and Trump

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.
by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on March 19, 2018

The GOP's Evolution On Immigration

Republicans used to take a softer line on immigration. What happened?
by Don Gonyea via NPR on January 25, 2018

Trump Isn't the Apotheosis of Conservatism

Writers like Rick Perlstein miss the ways in which Trump’s rise is a story of discontinuity.
by David Frum via The Atlantic on April 15, 2017
Side by side photos of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump.

How Republicans Went From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump, in 13 Maps

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on July 20, 2016
Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich.

They Were Made for Each Other

How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.
by Nicole Hemmer, Brent Cebul via The New Republic on July 11, 2016

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016
Jean and Joseph McCarthy reading the Daily Worker.

McCarthyism Is Back. You Can Thank This Woman.

History has overlooked the real architect of Joe McCarthy’s purges: his wife.
by Joshua Kendall via Politico Magazine on November 9, 2025
Michael Shannon as James Garfield in Death by Lightning.

The Real Story Behind ‘Death by Lightning’ and the Assassination of President James A. Garfield

The series dramatizes the brief tenure of the 20th president, who was fatally shot by Charles Guiteau, a lawyer who believed he’d secured Garfield’s election.
by Zachary Clary via Smithsonian Magazine on November 6, 2025
A collage of censored obscenities and the front page of the Dartmouth Review.

Before Trump, and Before the Young Republicans, There Was the Dartmouth Review

Long before Trump, a group of Dartmouth students weaponized outrage and satire to seize the spotlight.
by Rich Barlow via Politico Magazine on October 21, 2025
Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Lesson for Some 2028 Democrat

There are parallels between the John Brown raid and the murder of Charlie Kirk. But only one man seized the moment to start changing the course of history.
by Sidney Blumenthal via The New Republic on October 20, 2025
Picture of U.S. capital with the backdrop of the American Flag, with a red reflection.

The Treacherous Allure of the “Polarization” Dogma

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.
by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on September 14, 2025
Illustration by Josh Gosfield of Reagan in a suit, next to the fashions of Trumpism, including the red hat, the golden sneaker, and the Jan. 6 rioter with the horned headdress.

How Did Republican Fashion Go From Blazers to Belligerence?

Trump and his cronies’ style reflects a platform where grievance is currency and performance is power.
by Derek Guy via The Nation on September 10, 2025
Lighter falling onto a pile of books.

What If History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
by David W. Blight via The New Republic on August 7, 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
US National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN"

The Classical Liberal Foundation of Civil Rights

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.
by David Lewis Schaefer via Law & Liberty on June 24, 2025
William F. Buckley during a press interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1970s. (Alamy)

Steering Right

Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of William F. Buckley has certain limitations, but it captures the character of conservatism’s founding father.
by John O. McGinnis via Law & Liberty on June 19, 2025
Arrows circling the word "Invasion"

The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy

Trump allies push “invasion” claims to justify suspending habeas corpus, a far-right legal effort years in the making.
by Molly Redden via ProPublica on May 23, 2025
William McKinley's presidential inauguration.

A Warning for Democrats From the Gilded Age and the 1896 Election

Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
by Adam M. Silver via The Conversation on April 22, 2025
Ronald Reagan standing before a podium and a row of American flags.

The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

On the early career of the actor-cum-politician who changed America.
by Michael Hiltzik via Literary Hub on February 26, 2025
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