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Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court

In 2005, Howard Zinn explained why it was naive to depend on the Court to defend the rights of marginalized Americans.
by Howard Zinn via The Progressive on October 21, 2005
Caricature drawing of Charles Black

Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.
by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on September 24, 1998

To Keep and Bear Arms

A challenge to the "Standard Model" scholars who hold that the Second Amendment protects individual gun rights.
by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on September 21, 1995
Painting of Abraham Lincoln

The Election in November

The Atlantic’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for presidency in the 1860 election, correctly predicting it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”
by James Russell Lowell via The Atlantic on October 1, 1860
American Flag in front of a church steeple.

Religious Freedom and the Founding

Religious liberty owes much to Jefferson and Madison, but the "impregnable wall" doesn't do justice to the founders vision.
by Mark David Hall via Law & Liberty on December 18, 2025
Declaration of Independence and American flag.

Declaration of Independence’s Promises Ring Out Today as Loudly as They Did for 249 Years

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new visions for the country’s future.
by Graeme Mack via The Conversation on December 4, 2025
"Join, or Die" political cartoon of the snake in pieces representing colonies.

Did the Iroquois Really Influence the Birth of the Union?

For a fight at Thanksgiving, bring that one up.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on November 22, 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
William Lloyd Garrison.

From William Lloyd Garrison to Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

There has been a long history of nonviolent resistance in the United States, from William Lloyd Garrison to Martin Luther King Jr.
by Bennett Parten via Public Seminar on November 18, 2025
Portrait of Morris Hillquit taken between 1910 and 1915.

The Socialist Who Helped Bring Marx to America

The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as a foundation for a transition to socialism.
by Jonathan Michaels via Jacobin on November 10, 2025
Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Lesson for Some 2028 Democrat

There are parallels between the John Brown raid and the murder of Charlie Kirk. But only one man seized the moment to start changing the course of history.
by Sidney Blumenthal via The New Republic on October 20, 2025
A map of a proposed redistricting plan in Louisiana.

The Two Section Twos

The protection against racial gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional. Just read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
by Sherrilyn Ifill via Sherrilyn's Newsletter on October 15, 2025
Lincoln, Washington, and a snippet from a lyceum address.

The Lincoln Way

How he used America’s past to rescue its future.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
The founders at the Constitutional Convention with the "We the People" as a backdrop.

“Shall We Have a King?”

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.
by William E. Leuchtenburg via American Heritage on October 10, 2025
Illustration of a Revolution, of a mob holding forks and knives, fighting men on horses.

The Insurrection Problem

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?
by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
Robert McNamara.

The War Hawk Who Wasn’t

Newly discovered documents reveal Robert McNamara’s private doubts about Vietnam.
by William Taubman, Philip Taubman via The Atlantic on September 18, 2025
"Home in the Woods," an 1847 painting by Thomas Cole.

A Republican Excursion

As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman via Law & Liberty on September 2, 2025
Presidents and various military personnel / armory photoshopped over each other

The Long Descent to Unilateralism

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.
by Sarah Burns via Law & Liberty on September 1, 2025
Illustration of John Dickinson with flowers in the barrel of his musket.

The Prudent Patriot

There’s a lot more to Founding Father John Dickinson than not signing the Declaration of Independence.
by Dennis Drabelle via The Pennsylvania Gazette on August 22, 2025
Constitutional convention painting blurred as if being spun in circles.

Remake America

If we want democracy to survive, we need a vision that’s going to be more compelling than the one the authoritarians are offering.
by Aziz Rana, Osita Nwanevu via The Baffler on August 19, 2025
Cartographic depiction of the Union armies Anaconda plan shows a snake wrapping around the American South.

The President's Awesome War Powers

Where they come from, how they've evolved, and how they could change.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Imperfect Union on July 15, 2025
Engraving of Founding Fathers reading the Declaration of Independence while onlookers rally.

Does America Have a Founding Philosophy?

It depends on how you read the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths.
by James R. Stoner, Jr. via Modern Age on July 1, 2025
US National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN"

The Classical Liberal Foundation of Civil Rights

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.
by David Lewis Schaefer via Law & Liberty on June 24, 2025
A hand holds a US flag and a pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building in a crowd celebrating the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
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How the Supreme Court Ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges Legalized Same-Sex Marriage

When Jim Obergefell and his partner John Arthur decided to marry after more than 20 years together, their home state refused to recognize same-sex marriages.
by Kit R. Roane via Retro Report on June 18, 2025
Broadside about the Fugitive Slave law.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Annotated

The Fugitive Slave Act erased the most basic of constitutional rights for enslaved people and incentivized US Commissioners to support kidnappers.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on May 19, 2025
Woodrow Wilson and a panel of red stars.

Surviving Bad Presidents

What the Constitution asks of us.
by George Thomas via The Bulwark on May 16, 2025
A group of men in a bar watching Oliver North testify before Congress.
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How the Iran-Contra Scandal Impacts American Politics Today

The Iran-Contra affair exposed how government officials can ignore democratic norms and practices.
by Alan McPherson via Made By History on May 14, 2025
Donald Trump and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term

Winning more than two elections was unthinkable. Then came FDR.
by Russell Berman via The Atlantic on May 1, 2025
Clark Mills’s statue of Andrew Jackson, Lafayette Park, Washington D.C., circa 1910–1925

Vance’s Junk History

When Donald Trump and his followers go in search of historical forerunners to justify their regime, they turn with striking regularity to the presidency.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on April 25, 2025
A monument of the Minutemen line in Concord, Massachusetts.
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The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.
by Eran A. Zelnik via HNN on April 15, 2025
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