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Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.

by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part I

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.

by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 3, 2014

What's Old is New: How Orange County's Conservative Past Created its Demographics Today

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.

by Ryan Reft via KCET on January 18, 2013

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

by H. W. Brands via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 1, 2012

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012

A Topic Best Avoided

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?

by Nicholas Guyatt via London Review of Books on December 1, 2011

Birthright

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 14, 2011

A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.

Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?

via BackStory on May 21, 2010

Advertisement for a "Little Orphan Annie" comic book collection. The protagonist, Annie and her dog are in the foreground of the advertisement.

Little Ideological Annie

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.

by Ben Schwartz via Bookforum on November 30, 2008

Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller

Was the 2008 Heller decision a victory for originalism or a living Constitution?

by Reva B. Siegel via Yale Faculty Scholarship Series on January 1, 2008

George W. Bush at a press conference on Iraq, March 3, 2003.

The First Casualty

The selling of the Iraq war.

by Spencer Ackerman, John B. Judis via The New Republic on June 30, 2003

George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq

George Kennan discusses the steps that are being taken in regards to the conflict with Iraq and questions President Bush's strategy.

by Albert Eisele via HNN on September 26, 2002

George W. Bush

George W. Bush Declares a War on Terror

Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address kicked off a war that continued well into the 21st century.

via Voices & Visions on January 29, 2002

A political cartoon of Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a crow on his shoulder, representing Jim Crow.

The Not-So-New Deal

The New Deal brought Black voters over to the Democratic Party, but was marred by racial inequality.

by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 8, 1983

The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy

Though best known for his dedication to civil rights as Chief Justice, Earl Warren was a key figure behind Japanese internment in California - and stood by it.

by G. Edward White via VQR on October 15, 1979

Book cover of "Let the Glory Out: My South and its Politics" by Al Gore

The Chaotic Politics of the South

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.

by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 14, 1972

Photo of Lyndon B. Johnson, next to photo of Barry Goldwater.

Confessions of a Republican

A 1964 presidential campaign advertisement for Lyndon Baines Johnson.

via LBJ Presidential Library on July 31, 1964

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