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The book was an especially formal response to the complications of white supremacy, segregated democracy, and civil war.

Seventy years after a disgraceful episode of anti-LGTBQ history, we are facing a new wave of McCarthyist fearmongering.

The lessons of the past for suburban affordable housing advocates.

Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.

Lincoln's understanding of the preconditions for genuine democracy, and of its necessity, were rooted in this rich soil. And with his help, ours could be, too.

Richard Nixon helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.

Jefferson’s system depended on shoring up the bulwarks of race and basing the law on a theory of government that withdrew protection from unfavored groups.

Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

After Emancipation, Black people fought for public benefits like pensions that would make their newly won citizenship meaningful.

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.

A far right politics that developed in the middle of the 20th century has prevented Democrats from gaining as they have in suburbs elsewhere.

Thirty years later, an avoidable tragedy has spawned a politically ascendant mythology.

The state GOP's expulsion of legislators Justin Pearson and Justin Jones echoes Georgia's refusal to seat congressman Julian Bond in 1965 for opposing the Vietnam War.

On April 5, 1910, the world was stunned by socialists’ victory at the ballot box in Milwaukee.

President Warren G. Harding paid not one, but two women to remain quiet about their affairs with him.

When the smoke cleared in D.C. following the 1968 riots after the assasination of MLK, the city's black communities organized to rebuild a more equitable city.

How Robert Segovia used steelworkers and the Catholic Church to build a political machine in Chicago.

To understand westward expansion, the Trail of Tears, the history of Manifest Destiny, and the impacts to Native Americans, one must understand its buildup.

From birthright freedom to birthright citizenship.

The rash ruse was central to Nixon’s strategy to fight the Cold War, and can also tell us a good deal about the famously elusive ex-president himself.

The secret, often missing ingredient to building a majoritarian progressive coalition.

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”

Two former CIA officials weigh in: "It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'"

The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.

How transphobia has been a consistent liability for Republicans, and why the right refuses to give it up.

When ranchers began reporting incidents of mutilated cattle, the ensuring panic fed both conspiracy theories and a growing cynicism about the government.

The decline of the John Birch Society offers possible strategies for containing the MAGA movement.

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.

For decades, conservatives were fine with sexually charged cross-dressing entertainment — so long as it reinforced traditional power structures.