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Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

The Battle of Charlottesville

What happened in Virginia was not the culminating battle of this conflict. It’s likely a tragic preface to more of the same.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on August 13, 2017

Jeff Sessions Is the Canary in the Coal Mine

It took well over a century for the office of the attorney general to accrue power and independence. Trump could blow that all up.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on July 27, 2017

Combatting Stereotypes About Appalachian Dialects

Language variation is just as diverse within Appalachia as it is outside of the region.

by Kirk Hazen via The Conversation on July 13, 2017

Coal No Longer Fuels America. But the Legacy — and the Myth — Remain.

Coal country still clings to the industry that was long its chief source of revenue and a way of life.

by Karen Heller via Retropolis on July 9, 2017

Clarence Darrow, left, with William Jennings Bryan, right, at the Scopes Trial.

Now More Than Ever, We Need Less History

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on July 8, 2017

The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on July 3, 2017

How Gotham Gave Us Trump

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.

by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on June 30, 2017

How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.

by Henry Olson via Politico Magazine on June 26, 2017

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on June 1, 2017

5 Reasons This Still Isn’t Watergate

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

by John A. Farrell via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017

NAFTA Policy Reveals a Distinction Between Trump, Ross Perot, and Patrick Buchanan

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.

by Paul Adler via HNN on May 7, 2017

Dermokratiya, USA

With rampant talk of Russian interference, it's worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia's 1996 election.

by Sean Guillory via Jacobin on March 13, 2017

Yes, We’ve Done It Too

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.

by Jess Engebretson via KQED on March 2, 2017

Washington D.C. in 1860.

Draining the Swamp

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.

by Ted Widmer via The New Yorker on January 19, 2017

The Weimar Analogy

Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.

by Daniel Bessner, Udi Greenberg via Jacobin on December 17, 2016

Reasserting White Supremacy

South Carolina’s Ben Tillman and the 2016 presidential election.

by Caroline Grego via Erstwhile: A History Blog on November 30, 2016

Political Correctness: How The Right Invented a Phantom Enemy

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

by Moira Weigel via The Guardian on November 30, 2016

The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

by Peter C. Baker via The New Yorker on November 26, 2016

Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College

The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.

by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on November 14, 2016

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

by Robert Sullivan via Harper's on October 1, 2016

Beards, Bachelors, and Brides: The Surprisingly Spicy Politics of the Presidential Election of 1856

Of the presidential elections in early America, few have stressed the themes of sex and gender so spicily as the heated contest of 1856.

by Thomas J. Balcerski via Commonplace on July 16, 2016

Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich.

They Were Made for Each Other

How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.

by Nicole Hemmer, Brent Cebul via The New Republic on July 11, 2016

The Disastrous, Forgotten 1996 Law That Created Today's Immigration Problem

Why the Clinton Administration is to blame for creating a permanent underclass of undocumented immigrants.

by Dara Lind via Vox on April 28, 2016

Trump and the Mob

The budding mogul had a soft spot (but a short memory) for wiseguys.

by Tom Robbins via The Marshall Project on April 27, 2016

'He Brutalized for You'

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.

by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on April 8, 2016

How Jackie Robinson Helped Defeat a Trump-Like Candidate

The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.

by Matt Delmont via The Atlantic on March 19, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016

When People Flee to America’s Shores

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on November 17, 2015

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