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Jackson statue in New Orleans.

What Happens When Racism and Executive Overreach Intersect in the Oval Office

It happened during Andrew Jackson’s administration, with fatal consequences.

by Laura Ellyn Smith via Made By History on July 16, 2019

Necessary to the Security of a Free State

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.

by Angelo Guisado via Current Affairs on May 8, 2019

When The President Laughs At Genocide

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

by Michael E. Carter via Tropics of Meta on February 10, 2019

The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

by Christine DeLucia via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 10, 2019

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; painting by Henry Inman, 1832.

Hail to the Chief

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”

by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on November 22, 2018

An Independence Day Alternative

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.

by Nicholas Guyatt via Jacobin on July 4, 2017

Jackson statue outside the White House.

Trump's Jacksonian Moment

A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.

by Richard White via Boston Review on June 7, 2017

The Big, Nearly 200-Year-Old Legal Issue at The Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Fight

Tribal sovereignty is a concept that even some of the protesters may not be familiar with. But it's important.

by German Lopez via Vox on March 13, 2017

The Monument Wars

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?

by Rebecca Solnit via Harper’s on January 13, 2017

John Ridge

Cherokee Slaveholders and Radical Abolitionists

An unlikely alliance in antebellum America.

by Natalie Joy via Commonplace on July 1, 2011

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