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Teddy Roosevelt on a horse in front of a Yellowstone National Park map background.

The Groundbreaking Political Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics.
by David S. Brown via Literary Hub on December 16, 2025
Grave markings for Jane Austen

Happy Birthday, Jane!

A survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
by Stephanie Insley Hershinow via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 16, 2025
David Rubenstein looks toward the Washington Monument.

When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.
by Michael Powell via The Atlantic on December 1, 2025
Gillette print advertisement, 1932, showing unemployed man who hasn't shaved.

Things Fall Apart: Herbert Hoover And The Risks Of Certitude

On the rhetoric and failure of the Hoover administration.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on December 1, 2025
Scene in a Shakespearean play in which a man has been killed by sword.

The Real Watergate Scandal

A myth and its legacy.
by Nathan Pinkoski via Claremont Review of Books on December 1, 2025
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin reading.

Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments

The mindset Franklin demonstrated in his scientific work helps us understand his political accomplishments.
by Ferdinand Mount via London Review of Books on November 27, 2025
Robert H. Jackson

Reintroducing Justice Robert Jackson

The complex justice whose Youngstown concurrence continues to influence debates over executive power.
by G. Edward White via OUPblog on November 20, 2025
Malcolm Cowley

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

In the early twentieth century, America's literature seemed provincial until Malcolm Cowley championed writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as distinctly American.
by Kevin Lozano via The New Yorker on November 19, 2025
Distorted photo of Henry James with two Henry James faces as ears.

A Mind So Fine: Two Scholars Tackle James

Passing your eyes over those first, electric sentences, it occurs to you that his readers are still catching up.
by Peter Huhne via Cleveland Review of Books on November 14, 2025
Andrew Jackson.
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The Men Who Made America’s Self-Made Man

A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson.
by Pamela Walker Laird via HNN on November 11, 2025
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
Theodore Roosevelt speaking with three reporters.
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The President and the Press Corps

Theodore Roosevelt was the first White House occupant to seek control over how newspapers covered him.
by Jordan Friedman via JSTOR Daily on November 6, 2025
Bruce Springsteen

What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Springsteen

The new Boss biopic robs his music of its mythic American qualities.
by Mark Asch via The Atlantic on October 24, 2025
"Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution" book cover

What Hamilton—and the Book It’s Based On—Missed About Eliza and Angelica Schuyler

How Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due.
by Elizabeth Stone via Slate on October 21, 2025
George Washington portrait in which he rests his hand on his hip.

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

A Quaker abolitionist hoped to convince the Virginian Founders to end slavery by appealing to their sense of manhood. They were not persuaded.
by Kathleen Telling via Age of Revolutions on October 13, 2025
Illustration of Rip Van Wrinkle.

Wake Up, Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving’s story isn’t just about a very long nap. It’s about the making of America.
by John Swansburg via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
Postcard of West Texas State College, 1946.
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The Most Integrated Institution in West Texas

What happened after West Texas State College desegregated its football team in the 1960s.
by Jeff Roche via HNN on October 8, 2025
LAPD Chief Daryl Gates in 1991.

When Antipathy to the LAPD’s Chief Was the Great Unifier

A memoir explores L.A.'s political culture after the Rodney King beating.
by Danny Goldberg via Truthdig on October 3, 2025
An illustration of three schools on a podium and ranked from first place to third.

College Rankings Were Once a Shocking Experiment

Now they’ve become an American ritual.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on October 2, 2025
White paper peeled back to reveal presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump in red stripes.

Backlash Presidents

How three eras of racial progress gave way to the presidencies of Johnson, Nixon, and Trump.
by Julia Azari via Princeton University Press on September 30, 2025
Four cut out images of people.

How Viking Introduced John Steinbeck, James Joyce and More to American Readers

On Pascal Covici, the editor who nurtured some of the most iconic names in literature.
by Paul Slovak via Literary Hub on September 16, 2025
Illustration of Henry Ford looking evil holding a town in his hand standing in a factory.

We’re Living in the World Henry Ford Built

Ford was a raving bigot and a tyrant who wanted complete control over his workers. Ford is a perfect example of why rich capitalists should not run the world.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on September 15, 2025
Cover of "The Citizen: Official Journal of the Citizens' Councils of America."

The White Civility Council

Media focus on Charlie Kirk's presentation style while downplaying what he said and did is reminiscent of 1950s strategies for legitimizing Jim Crow.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Campaign Trails on September 13, 2025
George Washington and his mother, Mary Ball Washington, attending a ball celebrating the surrender at Yorktown in 1781

The Reinvention of George Washington’s Mother, From Virtuous to Greedy to Striving for Independence

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president on her own after her husband’s death.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham, Kate Haulman via Smithsonian Magazine on September 11, 2025
A row of three empty hospital beds in a white room.

Understaffing and Underperformance

A cautionary tale from the Veterans Health Administration’s troubled past.
by Jael Basaraba, Mary Kirkpatrick via Nursing Clio on September 10, 2025
James R. Schlesinger, 1973
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Politicizing Intelligence: Nixon’s Man at the CIA

James R. Schlesinger was only head of the CIA for six months, but he nevertheless ranks as the least popular director in the agency’s history.
by Matthew Wills, Christopher Moran via JSTOR Daily on September 5, 2025
Clint Eastwood.

The Enigma of Clint Eastwood

Is he merely a reactionary, or do his films paint a more complicated picture?
by Adam Nayman via The Nation on September 4, 2025
Patsy Cline

Still “Crazy” for Patsy Cline

Since her untimely death in 1963, the legendary country music star continues to inspire new audiences and artists.
by Holley Snaith via American Heritage on September 1, 2025
Children in the Kennedy family labeled with their named.

Hijacking the Kennedys

Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.
by Reeves Wiedeman via Intelligencer on August 25, 2025
Image of Oswald Spengler.

The Strange Fate of Oswald Spengler

Spengler shared the anti-American prejudice of many of his German contemporaries, and it is safe to assume that he would have disparaged us as rootless.
by Kyle Baasch via Compact on August 22, 2025
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