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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 on September 1, 2017

How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction?

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.
by Richard Valelly via The American Prospect on August 23, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.
by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017
Mitch McConnell
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Partisanship is an American Tradition — And Good for Democracy

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.
by Aaron Astor via Made By History on July 12, 2017

The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 3, 2017
Donald Trump and Theresa May
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Protectionism 100 Years ago Helped Ignite a World War. Could it Happen Again?

Abandoning free trade doesn't just hurt the economy. It threatens peace and stability across the globe.
by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on June 30, 2017

Why the Civil War West Mattered – and Still Does

The West cared very much about the Civil War.
by Megan Kate Nelson via HistoryNet 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
Trump at the podium, surrounded by other officials.
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Why are Republicans Trapped on Health Care? Because Democrats Stole Their Best Idea.

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.
by Guian McKee via Made By History on June 26, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.
by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017

How Conservatives Waged a War on Expertise

Donald Trump is not the first person to gain power by questioning, undermining, and delegitimizing once-trusted institutions.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Public Books on May 15, 2017

Why There Was a Civil War

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.
by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on May 1, 2017

What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump's First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses

Experts weigh in on how historians of the future may assess President Trump's achievements after his first 100 days in office.
by Ibram X. Kendi, David McCullough, Timothy Naftali, George H. Nash, Anne E. Parsons, Heather Ann Thompson, Julie M. Weise, Alice S. Yang, Kyle G. Volk, Pablo A. Piccato, Roger Pilon via TIME on April 27, 2017

Trump's Predictable Rise

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on April 21, 2017

When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.
by Sam Tanenhaus via Esquire on April 5, 2017

Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on March 15, 2017
A political cartoon showing two figures leading donkeys in opposite directions. The donkeys are depicted with the faces of Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay.

Prospects for Partisan Realignment: Lessons from the Demise of the Whigs

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.
by Philip Wallach via Brookings on March 6, 2017

The GOP’s Long History With Black Colleges

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?
by Leah Wright Rigueur, Theodore R. Johnson III via Politico Magazine on February 27, 2017
Floyd B. McKissick and Kimp Talley stand in front of a tall sign that reads "Soul City."
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Soul City

In the 1960s, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick successfully sold President Nixon on an idea of a black built, black-owned community in North Carolina.
via BackStory on November 17, 2016

Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on October 25, 2016

Freedom vs. Liberty: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Chose One Over the Other

Religious "freedom" and "liberty" have always had different connotations.
by Stephanie Russell-Kraft via Religion Dispatches on October 12, 2016

Trump Syllabus 2.0

An introduction to the currents of American culture that led to "Trumpism.'
by Keisha N. Blain, N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 28, 2016

Ronald Reagan Was Once Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.
by Frank Rich via Intelligencer on June 1, 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 the Rivalry Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Changed History

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.
by John Ferling via TIME on February 15, 2016
U.S. Capitol building.

The Messiest Speakership Battle in History

160 years ago, a similarly fractured GOP took months to settle on a speaker.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on September 30, 2015

Killing Reconstruction

During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.
by Heather Cox Richardson via Jacobin on August 19, 2015

Are Reagan Democrats Becoming Trump Democrats?

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president
by Jeffrey Lord via The American Spectator on August 13, 2015

Remembering President Wilson's Purge of Black Federal Workers

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.
by Josh Marshall via Talking Points Memo on June 26, 2015

Though The Heavens Fall, Part 1

The Texan newspaperman who was born into slavery and helped shape the history of civil rights.
by John Jeremiah Sullivan, Joel Finsel via Oxford American on February 26, 2015
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