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Counting the Dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.

by Alex Wellerstein via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 4, 2020

The Next Lost Cause?

The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

by Caroline E. Janney via Washington Post on July 31, 2020

The Death of Hannah Fizer

Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.

by Barbara J. Fields, Adam Rothman via Dissent on July 24, 2020

A colorized photo of migrant children in 1942.

How to Interpret Historical Analogies

They’re good for kickstarting political debate but analogies with the past are often ahistorical and should be treated with care.

by Moshik Temkin via Aeon on July 22, 2020

Youth members of a German-American Bund camp raising a flag, 1934.

American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 22, 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

How White Backlash Controls American Progress

Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via The Atlantic on May 21, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

A man wearing a white shirt with a black "L," with people holding flags in the background

How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.

by Donna Rifkind via Literary Hub on February 7, 2020

William F. Buckley, Jr. being interviewed on What’s Happening Mr. Silver.

On the Right: NET and Modern Conservatism

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

by Allison Perlman via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 22, 2020

Why Historical Analogy Matters

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.

by Peter E. Gordon via New York Review of Books on January 7, 2020

How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Humanities on January 2, 2020

Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson and the Declaration

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence announced a new epoch in world history, transforming a provincial tax revolt into a great struggle to liberate humanity.

by Peter S. Onuf via American Heritage on January 1, 2020

Trump's not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.

by Tim Murphy via Mother Jones on December 20, 2019

The Remembered Past

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.

by Lewis H. Lapham via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2019

The Decade America Terrorized Itself

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…

by Patrick Blanchfield via Gen on December 10, 2019

Trump displaying a table of reciprocal tariffs.

The Dangers of President Trump’s Favorite Word — Reciprocity

The Gilded Age roots of Trump's trade philosophy.

by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on November 5, 2019

Rush Limbaugh.

From Entertainment to Outrage: On the Rise of Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio

How the alienated margins arrived at the center of American politics.

by Brian Rosenwald via Literary Hub on November 5, 2019

Nancy Pelosi

What We Get Wrong About Ben Franklin’s ‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It’

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on October 29, 2019

Woman being struck by lightning in front of shocked judge and crowd at the Salem Witch Trials.

Most Witches are Women, Because Witch Hunts Were All About Persecuting the Powerless

We use the term "witch hunt" to describe baseless accusations. It's actually about targeting those without power.

by Bridget Marshall via The Conversation on October 23, 2019

"He Lies Like a Dog": The First Effort to Impeach a President Was Led by His Own Party

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

by Ronald G. Shafer via Washington Post on September 23, 2019

Photograph of Roy Cohn sitting in a wooden brown and yellow upholstered chair.

Covering for Roy Cohn

A documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.

by David Klion via The New Republic on September 18, 2019

Samuel Francis

The Outsider

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?

by Matthew Rose via First Things on September 16, 2019

Prison cells

The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

by John Clegg, Adaner Usmani via Catalyst on September 1, 2019

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.

by Donna Murch via Boston Review on August 27, 2019

What Hawaii’s Statehood Says About Inclusion in America

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.

by Sarah Miller Davenport via Made By History on August 16, 2019

“1984” at Seventy

Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on June 8, 2019

Hate in the Air

Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 23, 2019

When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists — and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

by John Nichols via The Nation on April 2, 2019

Illlustration: Mrs. Auld teaches fredrick Douglass to read

A Frederick Douglass Reading List

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

by Jaime Fuller via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 21, 2019

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