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Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?

We haven’t built many memorials to panics, recessions, or depressions, but maybe we should.
by Jessica Lepler via The Economic Historian on June 30, 2020
John Tyler.

Two on John Tyler: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!

After the Whig president’s shocking death, his vice president and successor proved to be a Whig by expedience only
by Richard Norton Smith via The Wall Street Journal on June 5, 2020

Alternate Histories

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.
by John Nichols, Wen Stephenson via The Baffler on May 21, 2020
Program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in Washington, DC, 1913, featuring a woman on a horse heralding votes for women and leading marchers toward the capitol.

The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.
by Ellen Carol DuBois, Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on March 18, 2020
Painting of George Washington on his death bed, surrounded by family and friends.

The Myth of George Washington’s Post-Presidency

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.
by Jonathan Horn via Politico Magazine on February 17, 2020

Is Impeachment Only About Getting a Conviction?

A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is a tool to constrain executive abuse of power and publicize dissent on matters of policy.
by Stephanie McCurry via The Nation on January 30, 2020
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Jimmy Carter and The Myth That Gave the Iowa Caucuses Their Political Power

What does winning in Iowa really mean?
by Wallace Hettle via HNN on January 19, 2020

Trump's not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.
by Tim Murphy via Mother Jones on December 20, 2019
Devils roasting the earth on a spit.

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.
by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

When Conservatives Tried to Throw Out Richard Nixon

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.
by Daniel Bring via The American Conservative on September 27, 2019
Rush Limbaugh sits next to Newt Gingrich during NBC's "Meet the Press" taping on Sunday Nov. 12, 1995.

They Just Wanted to Entertain

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.
by Brian Rosenwald via The Atlantic on August 21, 2019
Supreme Court building under dark rainclouds.

The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on July 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders

The Transformation of Bernie Sanders

How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.
by Matthew Karp via The Nation on May 7, 2019

How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.
by Martha S. Jones via Smithsonian on March 8, 2019
George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush in church.
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How George H.W. Bush Enabled the Rise of the Religious Right

Religious conservatives used the Bush presidency to launch their takeover of the GOP.
by Neil J. Young via Made By History on December 5, 2018

Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on November 4, 2018

Democrats’ Struggle Over Masculinity 50 Years Ago is Still Playing Out Today

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.
by Aram Goudsouzian via The Conversation on November 1, 2018

An Unlikely Hardliner, George H. W. Bush Was Ready to Push Presidential Powers

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.
by Kate Keller via Smithsonian on May 14, 2018
Political cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt holding his Big Stick and pulling a naval fleet in the Caribbean (1904).

Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Claim Theodore Roosevelt as Their Own

Our 26th President is lauded as an environmentalist, as well as an empire builder.
by Michael Patrick Cullinane via Zócalo Public Square on April 20, 2018
Trump smirking.

Was 2017 the Craziest Year in U.S. Political History?

A dozen historians weigh in.
by Heather Cox Richardson, Jack Rakove, Ron Chernow, Leo P. Ribuffo, David Greenberg, Nicole Hemmer, H. W. Brands, Jacqueline Jones, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Vanessa Walker, Joshua Zeitz, Elizabeth F. Ralph via Politico Magazine on December 29, 2017
Independence Day Celebration in Centre Square by John Lewis Krimmel (1787–1821).

The Brief Period, 200 Years Ago, When American Politics Was Full of “Good Feelings”

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on July 17, 2017

What Trump Gets Right—and Progressives Get Wrong—About Andrew Jackson

In the 19th century, Jackson broadened the electorate, but the self-righteousness of some Democrats impedes their efforts to do the same.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic on May 2, 2017
Delegates at a political convention.
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Please (Don’t) Be Seated

The story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and was denied.
via BackStory on July 22, 2016
Side by side photos of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump.

How Republicans Went From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump, in 13 Maps

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on July 20, 2016

How the 2000 Election in Florida Led to a New Wave of Voter Disenfranchisement

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.
by Ari Berman via The Nation on July 28, 2015

In Defense of Court-Packing

When the Supreme Court willfully misreads the Constitution, FDR’s plan doesn’t seem so bad.
by Ian Millhiser via Slate on February 23, 2015
Black Democrats raise their hands at the Democratic Convention.

23 Maps That Explain How Democrats Went From the Party of Racism to the Party of Obama

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on December 8, 2014
Lithograph of the reservoir of the Manhattan Water Works in 1825.
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Corporations in the Early Republic

An explanation of the Manhattan Company, a bank disguised as a municipal water corporation that helped to transform Early Republican politics.
via BackStory on June 20, 2014
Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker

The Lie Factory: How Politics Became a Business

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on September 17, 2012

The Manly Sport of American Politics

19th-century Americans abandoned the English phrasing of "standing" for election and begin to describe candidates who "run" for office. The race was on.
by Kenneth Cohen via Commonplace on April 1, 2012
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