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The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on December 23, 2019

Preaching a Conspiracy Theory

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.
by Allen C. Guelzo via City Journal on December 8, 2019
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Why Americans Turn to Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories have been a central feature in American politics since before the Revolution.
by Rachel Hope Cleves via Made By History on October 21, 2019
Political cartoon lampooning Thomas Paine and his beliefs

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.
by Ed Simon via The Revealer on December 20, 2018
1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 2018

Protesting Law Enforcement Is as Old as America Itself

Had British authorities and their soldiers exercised de-escalation tactics, would the United States exist today?
by Robin Washington via The Marshall Project on July 3, 2018
A sculpture depicting George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta staring at each other.

‘Our Father, the President’

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.
by Susan Dunn via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2018
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China and the American Revolution

Explaining the global impact of British-Chinese relations during the colonial period.
by Simon Hill via Journal of the American Revolution on December 7, 2017

The American Revolution Revisited

A nation divided, even at birth.
via The Economist on June 29, 2017

The Love of Monopoly

Why did the U.S. allow its national communications markets to be run by expansive monopolists?
by Tim Wu via The New Republic on May 19, 2011

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