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An illustration of two men in 1770s clothing fighting in a river.

Has the World Gone Mad? An Interview with Sarah Swedberg

Swedberg's new book shows how prevalent concerns about mental illness were to the people of the early American republic.

by Sarah Swedberg, Rebecca Brannon via Nursing Clio on March 25, 2021

Collage of a radio and Rush Limbaugh's mouth.

How Rush Limbaugh Broke the Old Media — and Built the New One

Whether you like Rachel Maddow, Stephen Colbert, Joe Rogan, or Sean Hannity, you're engaging the media world created by the late radio host.

by Brian Rosenwald via The Week on February 20, 2021

Rush Limbaugh at a Trump rally

From Limbaugh to Trump: A Historian of the Right Wing Explains Rush’s Real Legacy

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

by Rick Perlstein, Greg Sargent via Washington Post on February 17, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Just the Latest Radical White Woman Poisoning Politics

Such women have long pushed American politics to the right, and their ideas have become mainstream.

by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae via Made By History on February 6, 2021

Political Scientist Angie Maxwell on Countering the 'Long Southern Strategy'

For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.

by Angie Maxwell, Benjamin Barber via Facing South on January 22, 2021

The Battle of Fort Sumter.

How the Civil War Got Its Name

From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.

by Gaines M. Foster, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on January 15, 2021

A TV Documentary Shows the Deep Roots of Right-Wing Conspiracy

In 1964, the John Birch Society was the most active far-right group in the United States—unless you count the Republican Party.

by Richard Brody via The New Yorker on January 14, 2021

A composite photograph of South Carolina's majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction

The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.

by Vanessa Williamson via Dissent on January 11, 2021

This Is Who We Are

The rioters at the Capitol are part of an unbroken American tradition. Sweet talk about our “better angels” did not defeat them before and will not now.

by Michael Kazin via Dissent on January 7, 2021

Joe Biden speaking as the president elect.

What Biden’s Attachment to An American Century Might Mean

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.

by Suzanne Enzerink via Made By History on December 16, 2020

A painting of George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion.

The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

by Kyler Burd via Journal of the American Revolution on December 10, 2020

How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on December 9, 2020

Comic with Donald Trump at the head of a White House conference room.

The End of the Businessman President

Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

by Kyle Edward Williams via The New Republic on December 9, 2020

Painting of “Polling Day” in Pennsylvania in the Colonies, date unknown.

“They Chase Specters”

The irrational, the political, and fear of elections in colonial Pennsylvania.

by J. L. Tomlin via Age of Revolutions on December 3, 2020

Republicans Rediscover the Dangers of Selling Bunk to Their Constituents

Cynical public speech aimed at winning political power has consequences.

by Rachel Shelden via The Atlantic on November 25, 2020

A television news reporter in a segment from the 1990s on juvenile crime

Superpredator

The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.

by Carroll Bogert, Lynnell Hancock via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2020

Donald Trump at a rally

Trump’s Rhetoric About the Election Channels a Dark Episode From Our Past

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.

by David Gessner via Made By History on October 22, 2020

circulatory system diagram

A Brief History of "The System"

Tracing the twisting path of a resistance slogan, from the Nazis to the hippies to Trump.

by Jackson Arn via 3 Quarks Daily on October 19, 2020

A support of President Donald Trump at a rally in Staten Island, New York, in October.

What Trump Really Means When He Tweets “LAW & ORDER!!!”

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

by Beth Schwartzapfel via The Marshall Project on October 7, 2020

Joseph McCarthy presenting a map.

The Real Legacy of a Demagogue

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

by Dan Kaufman via The New Republic on October 2, 2020

Graffiti on a wall spelling "vote"

Refusing to Accept the Results of a Presidential Election Triggered the Civil War

The danger of President Trump's rhetoric.

by Aaron Sheehan-Dean via Made By History on October 2, 2020

Jimmy Carter speaking.

What Happens When a President Really Listens?

Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Carter ditching politics for truth.

by Jonathan Alter via Literary Hub on September 30, 2020

Donald Trump giving a speech under a mural of the Founders.

White Evangelicals and the New American Exceptionalism of Donald Trump

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 29, 2020

A white picket fence

Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.

by David R. Roediger via Literary Hub on September 28, 2020

Is Freedom White?

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

by Jefferson Cowie via Boston Review on September 23, 2020

How Abraham Lincoln Fought the Supreme Court

As Lincoln recognized, it's not enough to question the decisions, justices, or even the structure of the Court. We need to challenge the foundation of its power.

by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on September 19, 2020

Protestors against eviction.

Covid-19 Has Exposed the Consequences of Decades of Bad Public Housing Policy

A reduction in public housing units left Americans at the mercy of private landlords.

by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith via Made By History on September 8, 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

Three African American protest leaders address a crowd.

True Stories About the Great Fire

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

by Dan Adler, Anthony Breznican, Kenzie Bryant, Michael Calderone, Arimeta Diop, Caleb Ecarma, Joe Hagan, Chris Smith, Claire Landsbaum, Abigail Tracy, Erin Vanderhoof via The Hive on August 24, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020

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