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In the Common Interest
How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.
by
Nic Johnson
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Chris Hong
,
Robert Manduca
via
Boston Review
on
May 18, 2021
Has the World Gone Mad? An Interview with Sarah Swedberg
Swedberg's new book shows how prevalent concerns about mental illness were to the people of the early American republic.
by
Sarah Swedberg
,
Rebecca Brannon
via
Nursing Clio
on
March 25, 2021
partner
History Reveals That Getting Rid of the Filibuster is the Only Option
Reforms have only made obstruction the Founders never intended worse.
by
Nancy Young
via
Made By History
on
March 12, 2021
Why Do Americans Have So Few Rights?
How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice.
by
Samuel Moyn
via
The New Republic
on
March 9, 2021
What Is Happening to the Republicans?
In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.
by
Jelani Cobb
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The New Yorker
on
March 8, 2021
From Limbaugh to Trump: A Historian of the Right Wing Explains Rush’s Real Legacy
In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.
by
Rick Perlstein
,
Greg Sargent
via
Washington Post
on
February 17, 2021
The Politics of a Second Gilded Age
Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.
by
Matthew Karp
via
Jacobin
on
February 17, 2021
How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency
Donald Trump's four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a unique figure.
by
Michael Dimock
,
John Gramlich
via
Pew Research Center
on
January 29, 2021
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
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Facing South
on
January 22, 2021
Why It’s Time to Take Secessionist Talk Seriously
Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return.
by
Richard Kreitner
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 19, 2021
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by
Jeet Heer
via
The Nation
on
October 6, 2020
One Week to Save Democracy
Lessons from Frederick Douglass on the tortured relationship between protest and change.
by
David W. Blight
via
The Atlantic
on
June 5, 2020
‘Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming’
The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.
by
Robert Cohen
,
Michael Koncewicz
via
The Nation
on
May 4, 2020
Kent State and the War That Never Ended
The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
May 4, 2020
How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court
The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.
by
John Fabian Witt
via
The New Republic
on
April 7, 2020
America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared
John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”
by
Lee Drutman
via
The Atlantic
on
January 2, 2020
Civility Is Overrated
The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
by
Adam Serwer
via
The Atlantic
on
November 12, 2019
The First and Last of Her Kind
The legal academy has grown dismissive of Justice O’Connor, but the Supreme Court is not a law school faculty workshop. She saw herself as a problem-solver.
by
Linda Greenhouse
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 17, 2019
Conservatives Say We've Abandoned Reason and Civility. The Old South Said That, Too
The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.
by
Eve Fairbanks
via
Washington Post
on
August 29, 2019
Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?
A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."
by
Asif Siddiqi
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 28, 2019
A Brief History of the History Wars
Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
August 20, 2019
How the Republican Majority Emerged
Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.
by
Kevin M. Kruse
,
Dov Weinryb Grohsgal
via
The Atlantic
on
August 6, 2019
Nancy Pelosi, Impeachment, and Places in History
Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.
by
Sean Wilentz
via
The New Yorker
on
July 11, 2019
What Could Go Wrong for Trump on July 4th? In 1970, Protests and Tear Gas Marred the Day.
"Honor America Day" was designed to showcase support for President Nixon at a time of bitter division.
by
Ronald G. Shafer
via
Retropolis
on
July 2, 2019
Will Support Grow for Impeaching Trump? Data on Nixon Offers a Clue.
The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.
by
Greg Sargent
via
Washington Post
on
June 3, 2019
The Birthplace of American Slavery Debated Abolishing it After Nat Turner’s Bloody Revolt
Virginia engaged in “the most public, focused, and sustained discussion of slavery and emancipation that ever occurred."
by
Gregory S. Schneider
via
Retropolis
on
June 1, 2019
‘It’s a Racial Thing, Don’t Kid Yourself’: An Oral History of Chicago’s 1983 Mayoral Race
How Harold Washington became Chicago’s first black mayor.
by
Jordan Heller
via
Intelligencer
on
April 2, 2019
It's Time to Stop Talking About a 'National Divorce'
The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.
by
Christian Vanderbrouk
via
The Bulwark
on
March 21, 2019
Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist President
He never denounced slavery and was brutal towards American Indians, but remains a popular figure. Why?
by
Jeff Taylor
via
The American Conservative
on
February 8, 2019
The Unbelievable Story of the Plot Against George Soros
How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
by
Hannes Grassegger
via
BuzzFeed News
on
January 20, 2019
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