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Political Scientist Angie Maxwell on Countering the 'Long Southern Strategy'

For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.

by Angie Maxwell, Benjamin Barber via Facing South on January 22, 2021

Minority Rule Cannot Last in America

by Kenneth Owen via The Atlantic on December 2, 2020

Harry S. Truman holding up a newspaper with the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman"

Why Americans Will Never Turn Against Polling

Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.

by Rebecca Onion, W. Joseph Campbell via Slate on November 5, 2020

A Possible Majority

A political history of the present moment.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Dissent on October 27, 2020

The Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C.

Why History Shows 'Court Packing' Isn't Extreme

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on October 12, 2020

Illustration of 9/11 inside outline of girl

The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020

Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 26, 2020

Where Were You in ‘73?

In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today's political reaction.

by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on July 16, 2020

Pre-Existing Conditions: Pandemics as History

In times that feel “unprecedented,” it is all the more important to use history as a way to understand the present and chart a path to the future.

by Andy Horowitz via Items on July 9, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.

by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020

Man at Trump rally holding a "Latinos for Trump" sign.

On the Past and Future of Hispanic Republicans

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”

by Geraldo Cadava, Rosina Lozano via Public Books on June 15, 2020

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on June 2, 2020

A shot from behind of Rush Limbaugh giving a speech at a Make America Great Again rally.

The Right’s Reign on the Air Waves

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party.

by Jake Bittle via The New Republic on June 1, 2020

The Trouble with Comparisons

Comparison to Nazism and fascism distracts us from how we made Trump over decades.

by Samuel Moyn via New York Review of Books on May 19, 2020

Daniel Webster, Yankee National Conservative

What 'the forgotten man of American conservatism' has to say about current debates on the right.

by Joseph S. Laughon via The American Conservative on May 12, 2020

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Literary Hub on March 6, 2020

Militarize, Destabilize, Deport, Repeat

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.

by Stephen D. Cohen via The Baffler on March 5, 2020

The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.

by Corey Robin via New York Review of Books on February 21, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."

by Samuel G. Freedman via Literary Hub on January 30, 2020

Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Plot Was Real After All

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected.

by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on January 21, 2020

National Archives Exhibit Blurs Images Critical of President Trump

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

by Joe Heim via Washington Post on January 17, 2020

The Remembered Past

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.

by Lewis H. Lapham via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2019

Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on October 9, 2019

The Obamanauts

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

by Corey Robin via Dissent on October 7, 2019

Map of 1796 presidential election electoral votes by state.

The Founders Knew That Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections was Dangerous

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on October 7, 2019

Building America

The making of the black working class.

by William P. Jones via The Nation on October 7, 2019

Mugshot of Bernard L. Barker.

Want to Know Why Some Hispanics Support Donald Trump? Ask Richard Nixon.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

by Geraldo Cadava via Made By History on August 9, 2019

Barry Goldwater with his finger to his lips sushing the audience.

How Never-Trump Republicans Went Extinct

Shared enemies and ideology matter more than Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on August 6, 2019

What We Get Wrong About the Southern Strategy

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

by Angie Maxwell via Made By History on July 26, 2019

Senators Joseph McCarthy and Kenneth Wherry.

Democracy and Misinformation

The Cold War and today.

by Jennifer M. Miller via Perspectives on History on June 10, 2019

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