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What Does It Take to Win?
A new history of American politics examines the past and future of political realignments.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Nation
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January 24, 2023
Sectional Industrialization
Political scientist Richard Bensel explains the feedback loops between policy commitments of political elites and the regional distribution of political power.
by
Justin H. Vassallo
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Richard Franklin Bensel
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Phenomenal World
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January 7, 2023
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Cochise County Didn’t Used To Be the Land Of Far Right Stunts
How the rural Arizona border county embodies the political shift in much of America.
by
Katherine Benton-Cohen
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Made By History
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December 2, 2022
“A Solemn Battle Between Good and Evil.” Charles Sumner’s Radical, Compelling Message of Abolition
The senator from Massachusetts and the birth of the Republican Party.
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Timothy Shenk
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Literary Hub
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October 24, 2022
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The Virginia History its State Board Doesn’t Want Students to Know
Our racial history is complex and important, but debates today are eliding entire chapters of it.
by
Kevin M. Levin
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Made By History
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August 25, 2022
An American History of the Socialist Idea
The American socialism movement's open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.
by
Harold Meyerson
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Dissent
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April 4, 2022
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The Founders Constructed Our Government to Foster Inaction
Why Democrats have struggled to implement their agenda.
by
Calvin Schermerhorn
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Made By History
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October 28, 2021
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Gerrymandering's Surprising History and Uncertain Future
Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.
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Retro Report
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October 18, 2021
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The Roots of the Politicization of the National Parks Service
Understanding how the National Park Service Director is chosen is important for understanding the current state of our national parks system.
by
Nick DeLuca
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HNN
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September 26, 2021
Sunrise at Monticello
Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.
by
Michael Liss
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3 Quarks Daily
on
July 19, 2021
The Founders Flounder: Adams Agonistes
Why John Adams was peculiarly unsuited to the moment.
by
Michael Liss
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3 Quarks Daily
on
May 24, 2021
The Forgotten Precedent for Our ‘Unprecedented’ Political Insanity
The decades after the Civil War saw mass participation and mass outrage, followed by a period of orderly reform. What can we learn from that era today?
by
Jon Grinspan
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Politico Magazine
on
April 24, 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
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Jacobin
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February 17, 2021
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What’s Driving So Many Republicans to Support Joe Biden?
The collapse of the Republican Party.
by
Geoffrey Kabaservice
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Made By History
on
October 30, 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
The Corrupt Bargain
Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.
by
Eric Foner
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London Review of Books
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May 21, 2020
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Bernie Sanders’s Campaign is Over, but His Populist Ideas Will Survive
Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.
by
Robert B. Mitchell
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Made By History
on
April 9, 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
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January 19, 2020
How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be So Long?
U.S. presidential elections didn't drag on so long before the late sixties.
by
Rachel Caufield
via
The Conversation
on
July 30, 2019
The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
by
Timothy Shenk
via
The Nation
on
May 20, 2019
Mapping the First Party System
Introducing a new digital history project focused on the ways Americans voted from 1788 to 1825.
by
Lincoln Mullen
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Mapping Early American Elections
on
May 13, 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
Goodbye, Cold War
For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.
by
Aziz Rana
via
n+1
on
November 30, 2018
You Probably Don't Know This About U.S. Elections
From voting rights to the electoral college, a brief explainer on three widespread misconceptions about voting.
by
Alex Keyssar
via
Harvard Kennedy School
on
October 30, 2018
Politics Is More Partisan Now, But It’s Not More Divisive
And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.
by
Julia Azari
via
FiveThirtyEight
on
January 19, 2018
Two Cheers for Polarization
We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.
by
Sam Rosenfeld
via
Boston Review
on
October 25, 2017
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Trump and the Historians
What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.
by
Brent Cebul
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September 1, 2017
The Confederate General Who Was Erased
There's a reason you won't find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee's most able deputies.
by
Jane Dailey
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HuffPost
on
August 21, 2017
Where Did the Term 'Gerrymander' Come From?
Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.
by
Erick Trickey
via
Smithsonian
on
July 20, 2017
Violence Against Members of Congress Has a Long, and Ominous, History
In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.
by
Joanne B. Freeman
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Washington Post
on
June 15, 2017
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