William Hogeland

On the folly of relying on history to settle the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment should bar Trump from office.

A bad history.

1796, the first contested presidential election.

Whole states of the Union owe their very existence to nothing more nation-building than 19th-Century pols’ wanting to add new senators to one side of the aisle.

The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.

Watching the Ken Burns series on the U.S. and the Holocaust and thinking about American folk music.

"The New York Times" as the world's most exhausted professor.

The bad history in Alito’s draft overturning Roe v. Wade.

Why are so many songs of the Confederacy indelibly inscribed in my Yankee memory?

Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?

Why songs of the southland are really northern.