Election of 2016 — Bunk History

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Somewhere in Between

The rise and fall of Clintonism.

by Ryan Cooper via The Nation on February 14, 2018

How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment.

by T. J. Stiles via Literary Hub on January 31, 2018

Girls in Appalachia in 1935.

The Invention of the 'White Working Class'

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.

by Andrew J. Perrin via Public Books on January 30, 2018

Conservatives and Counterrevolutionaries

Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”

by Lily Geismer via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 19, 2018

On Eve of Trump Visit, Mississippi African Americans Say He’s Brought Back Past Troubles

The president’s decision to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson has sparked protests.

by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on December 7, 2017

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017

Paul Manafort is a Glossy, Glossy Man

His wardrobe -- and the millions he spent on it -- tell you everything you need to know about power, 1980s-style.

by Robin Givhan via Washington Post on November 1, 2017

Putin and Trump.

Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.

by Andrew Cohen via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2017

The Big Picture: The Right Type of Citizenship

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

by Jefferson Cowie via Public Books on October 31, 2017

The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

by Leah Wright Rigueur, Brent Cebul on October 19, 2017

One Person's History of Twitter, From Beginning to End

Twitter, valuing expansion over principles, achieved its goal of changing the world. But not in the way that it planned.

by Mike Monteiro via Medium on October 15, 2017

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

by Jefferson Cowie via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 1, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.

by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

No Matter What He Does, History Says Trump Will Never be Popular

Presidents who win the electoral college but lose the popular vote never really recover.

by Michael Kazin via Washington Post on July 21, 2017

Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy. He’s Killed Our Stupid Idea of Comedy.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

by Andrew Kahn via Slate on July 19, 2017

How our Appetite for Cheap Food Drove Rural America to Trump

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

by Benjamin Davison via Made By History on June 30, 2017

Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on June 22, 2017

Race to the Bottom

How the post-racial revolution became a whitewash.

by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw via The Baffler on June 1, 2017

How Conservatives Waged a War on Expertise

Donald Trump is not the first person to gain power by questioning, undermining, and delegitimizing once-trusted institutions.

by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Public Books on May 15, 2017

Five Reasons Why the Comey Affair Is Worse than Watergate

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.

by James Fallows via The Atlantic on May 12, 2017

Cross necklace worn over "Vote Trump" shirt.

Why Conservative Evangelicals Have Lined Up for Trump

It’s a match made in heaven.

by Molly Worthen via The Atlantic on May 1, 2017

What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump's First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses

Experts weigh in on how historians of the future may assess President Trump's achievements after his first 100 days in office.

by Ibram X. Kendi, David McCullough, Timothy Naftali, George H. Nash, Anne E. Parsons, Heather Ann Thompson, Julie M. Weise, Alice S. Yang, Kyle G. Volk, Pablo A. Piccato, Roger Pilon via TIME on April 27, 2017

Andrew Jackson

The Five Most Powerful Populist Uprisings in U.S. History

Populism stretches through the American experience.

by Robert W. Merry via The American Conservative on April 15, 2017

American History: Fake News That Never Goes Away — and Empowered the Trumpian Insurrection

Only if we face the painful lies we tell ourselves about the past can we hope to overcome what's happening now.

by Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein via Salon on February 25, 2017

Trump's Anti-Immigration Playbook Was Written 100 Years Ago. In Boston.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.

by Neil Swidey via Boston Globe on February 9, 2017

Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.

via Politico Magazine on January 22, 2017

Welcome to the Second Redemption

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 10, 2016

No Girls Allowed

How America's persistent preference for brash boys over "sivilizing" women fueled the candidacy of Donald Trump.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 28, 2016

America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women as Unhealthy

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 16, 2016

Trump Syllabus 2.0

An introduction to the currents of American culture that led to "Trumpism.'

by Keisha N. Blain, N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 28, 2016

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