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The Scopes Trial and the Two Visions of US Democracy
A new history revisits “the Trial of the Century” and its legacy in contemporary politics.
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Michael Kazin
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The Nation
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September 30, 2024
What a 100-Year-Old Trial Reveals About America
A new book on the famed 1920s court case traces a long-simmering culture war—and the fear that often drives both sides.
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John Kaag
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The Atlantic
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August 29, 2024
Why the School Wars Still Rage
From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
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March 10, 2022
The South’s Resistance to Vaccination Is Not As Incomprehensible As It Seems
The psychological forces driving “red COVID” have deep historical roots.
by
Angie Maxwell
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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October 1, 2021
Was David Domer Canceled?
A look in on the first evolution trial.
by
Adam R. Shapiro
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Contingent
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July 6, 2021
Now More Than Ever, We Need Less History
The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.
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William Hogeland
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William Hogeland blog
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July 8, 2017
All You Need Is Love
The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.
by
Ronald Steel
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New York Review of Books
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June 22, 2006
How to Study the “Village Virus”
Sinclair Lewis and the small-town science of yearning.
by
Vincent L. Femia
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The Metropole
on
April 3, 2024
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The Right-Wing Textbooks Shaping What Americans Know
Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.
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Adam Laats
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Made By History
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October 11, 2023
The Conservative War on Education That Failed
A century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach.
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Adam Laats
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The Atlantic
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November 23, 2021
Why the Culture Wars in Schools Are Worse Than Ever Before
The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.
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Jonathan Zimmerman
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Politico Magazine
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September 19, 2021
The History of American Newspapers is More Searchable Than Ever
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.
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Joshua Benton
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Nieman Lab
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February 2, 2021
The Mixed-Up Masters of Early Animation
Pioneering cartoonists were experimental, satiric, erotic, and artistically ambitious.
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Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
on
December 21, 2020
Fundamentalism Turns 100, a Landmark for the Christian Right
Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.
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William Trollinger
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The Conversation
on
October 8, 2019
'Evangelical' Has Lost Its Meaning
A term that once described a vital tradition within the Christian faith now means something else entirely.
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Alan Jacobs
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The Atlantic
on
September 22, 2019
'I Love America': Fundamentalist Responses to World War II
The fundamentalist movement took the war as an opportunity to rebrand.
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Anderson Rouse
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Process: A Blog for American History
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March 12, 2019
Ku Klux Klambakes
What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?
by
Adam Hochschild
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New York Review of Books
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December 7, 2017
God and the Gridiron Game
America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.
by
Paul Putz
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Hunter Hampton
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Christianity Today
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September 6, 2017
Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s
We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.
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Richard Yeselson
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The Atlantic
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December 30, 2015
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