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Why we pay.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012
Illustration of James K. Polk with maps in the background.

Trump Wants to Be the New Polk

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.
by Vivian Salama via The Atlantic on January 21, 2026
Ford Model T's lining a street in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

From Aid to Trade

What U.S. policymakers should know about U.S.-Africa relations.
by Leigh Gardner via Perspectives on History on December 2, 2025
The Canadian and American flags.

Canada’s Heroic Delusion

The country’s 40-year-ago embrace of free trade with the U.S. has come back to haunt it.
by Dónal Gill via The Dial on October 28, 2025
Student stands in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square
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Students’ Tiananmen Protest Turned Deadly, Transforming U.S.-China Relations

Students in Beijing rallied for free speech and democratic reforms in 1989. The crackdown that followed altered U.S.-China relations.
via Retro Report on October 15, 2025
Illustration of a founding father standing in front of a distorted mirror.

What the Founders Would Say Now

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.
by Fintan O’Toole via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025

America’s Greatest Mistake

Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.
by Siddhartha Mahanta via The American Prospect on October 3, 2025
Demonstratoars protest Donald Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States, March 22, 2025.

Anti-Americanism in Canada Is Nothing New — It’s a Tradition

Trump’s tariffs/threats have sparked boycotts and motivated voters north of the border, but Canadians’ desire to distance themselves from the US has deep roots
by Jake Pitre via New Lines on September 19, 2025
Dates growing on a palm.
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Dates: Civilization’s Sweetest Indulgence

Offshoots from the “Tree of Life” traveled from Mesopotamia to the Levant to the United States, beguiling everyone with their toothsome confections.
by Jacob Jones via JSTOR Daily on August 13, 2025

A Supreme Court Justice Wrote the Greatest “No Kings” Essay in History

This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.
by Gerard Magliocca via Slate on July 10, 2025
Amon Msane speaks at a press conference outside the 3M plant in Freehold, New Jersey, surrounded by leaders of OCAW Local 8-760. Stanley Fischer (beard, sunglasses) stands beside Msane, 1986. (Courtesy of Stanley Fischer)

When South African Unionists Struck for US Workers

In 1986, black workers in apartheid South Africa walked off the job in support of New Jersey unionists; marking a rare moment of international labor solidarity.
by Jeff Schuhrke via Jacobin on May 20, 2025
Cartoon collage of Trump as an emperor with no clothes, triumphantly surveying Greenland, supported by Republicans dressed as Vikings.

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession

An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.
by Christopher Hooks via The New Republic on May 15, 2025
The U.S.-Canada border, as seen in this satellite map, mostly runs along the 49th parallel — and wasn't chosen at random.

Trump Calls the U.S.-Canada Border an "Artificial Line." That's not Entirely True.

Just because it's man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate.
by Rachel Treisman via NPR on May 9, 2025
William McKinley's presidential inauguration.

A Warning for Democrats From the Gilded Age and the 1896 Election

Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
by Adam M. Silver via The Conversation on April 22, 2025
A worker removes bottles of American-made Jack Daniel's whiskey from a shelf at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) Queen's Quay store in Toronto, Canada.
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The History Behind Canadian Boycotts of American Whiskey

A global marketplace has shaped the U.S. whiskey industry for a century, even as it brands itself distinctly American.
by E. Kyle Romero via Made By History on April 8, 2025
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton.

Limits on Presidential Power from FDR to Trump

What does history tell us about presidents who have tried to push the limits of the system?
by Todd Belt via American Heritage on February 28, 2025
Silhouettes of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, President Donald Trump, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in the Oval Office in the dark.

The Making of Emergencies

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.
by Caroline Elkins via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2025
Thomas Brackett Reed.

America First’s Forgotten Founder

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 
by James W. Carden via The American Conservative on February 7, 2025
Canadian and American flags.
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Using Tariffs to Try to Annex Canada Backfired in the 1890s

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.
by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on February 6, 2025
The COVID virus as the desert sun.

How Covid Shaped Climate Policy

Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.
by Tim Sahay, Kate MacKenzie via Heatmap on December 18, 2024

"It's the Economy, Stupid" is Never Just About the Economy

Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.
by Jacob Rosenberg via Mother Jones on December 12, 2024
Bracero workers in line getting paperwork filled out.

A New Bracero Program Is Not the Solution

An Eisenhower-era initiative holds key lessons for Trump’s immigration policy.
by Mae Ngai via The Atlantic on December 9, 2024
LBJ and his cabinet in Washington, DC (1963).

Two Forms of American Liberalism

Although the American tradition is broadly liberal, it is best understood as divided between two schools: classical and managerial liberalism.
by Matt Wolfson via Law & Liberty on September 18, 2024
Alexander Hamilton, with superimposed map of Atlantic world.

The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft

A grand strategy for a turbulent world.
by Walter Russell Mead via Foreign Affairs on August 20, 2024
William McKinley

Trump Is Right About McKinley

“The most underrated president” was a model of successful governance in a world in flux.
by Sean Durns via The American Conservative on August 1, 2024
J. D. Vance speaking at a campaign rally for Donald Trump.

J. D. Vance Is Summoning the John Birch Society

Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.
by David Austin Walsh via Jacobin on July 29, 2024
Old picture of Union soldiers holding a pot of coffee.

How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War

The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage.
by Bronwen Everill via Smithsonian Magazine on June 27, 2024
Members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Feminism's Forgotten Free-Trade Past

Jane Addams and the interwar women’s peace movement: feminist contributions to international relations.
by Marc-William Palen via History Matters on April 23, 2024
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Recovering the Left-Wing Free Trade Tradition

Free trade has been defended primarily by neoliberals who cared little about social justice or democracy. An examination of its history paints a different picture.
by Marc-William Palen via LPE Project on March 21, 2024
Collage depicting shipping containers, a scale weighing American dollars, and a screen of numbers and percentages

Free Trade's Origin Myth

American elites accepted the economic theory of "comparative advantage" mainly because it justified their geopolitical agenda.
by Oren Cass via Law & Liberty on January 2, 2024
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