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Obama and Trump at Trump's inauguration.

Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 20, 2017

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.
by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on June 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 via Washington Post on June 15, 2017

His Kampf

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.
by Graeme Wood via The Atlantic on June 1, 2017

5 Reasons This Still Isn’t Watergate

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.
by John A. Farrell via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017
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NAFTA Policy Reveals a Distinction Between Trump, Ross Perot, and Patrick Buchanan

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.
by Paul Adler via HNN on May 7, 2017

How Reagan’s EPA Chief Paved the Way for Trump’s Assault on the Agency

Anne Gorsuch Burford — the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.
by Cally Carswell via The New Republic on March 21, 2017
U.S. soldiers in the Civil War.

Expanding the Slaveocracy

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
by Eric Foner, Matthew Karp via Jacobin on March 21, 2017
The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

The Most Contentious Presidential Transition in American History

Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?
by Jon Grinspan, James M. McPherson, Peter Feuerherd, Frederic Bancroft via JSTOR Daily on November 22, 2016

Who Freed the Slaves?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
by Stephanie McCurry via The Nation on September 13, 2016
U.S. President George W. Bush holds a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington July 15, 2008.

George W. Bush's White House "Lost" 22 Million Emails

The outrage and press coverage was nothing compared with that surrounding Hillary Clinton's emails.
by Nina Burleigh via Newsweek on September 12, 2016
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Upheaval at the 1860 Democratic Convention: What Happened When a Party Split

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.
via Retro Report on July 28, 2016

A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border

The border blurred the stark dividing line between white and black in America, something that Americans like William Ellis used to their advantage.
by Jonathan Blitzer via The New Yorker on July 20, 2016

Beards, Bachelors, and Brides: The Surprisingly Spicy Politics of the Presidential Election of 1856

Of the presidential elections in early America, few have stressed the themes of sex and gender so spicily as the heated contest of 1856.
by Thomas J. Balcerski via Commonplace on July 16, 2016

The Truth About Abolition

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.
by Adam Rothman via The Atlantic on April 1, 2016

The Price of Union

The undefeatable South.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on November 2, 2015

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
Black family outside their homestead, Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas.

Exodusters

Migration further west began almost immediately after Reconstruction ended, as Black Americans initiated the "Great Exodus" outside the South toward Kansas.
by Todd Arrington via National Park Service on April 10, 2015
Full text of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, etched in stone.

What Does It Mean To Make America "Christian?"

The "Christian Amendment" and the push for Christianity to be established as the national religion of the United States.
by Charles Louis Richter via (Ir)religion In America on February 26, 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

The Polarized Congress of Today Has its Roots in the 1970s

Polarization in Congress began in the 1970s, and its only been getting worse since.
by Drew DeSilver via Pew Research Center on June 12, 2014

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.
by Randall Balmer via Politico Magazine on May 27, 2014
Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.
by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part I

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 3, 2014

What's Old is New: How Orange County's Conservative Past Created its Demographics Today

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.
by Ryan Reft via KCET on January 18, 2013

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.
by H. W. Brands via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 1, 2012

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012

A Topic Best Avoided

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?
by Nicholas Guyatt via London Review of Books on December 1, 2011

Birthright

What's next for Planned Parenthood?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 14, 2011
A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.
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Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?
via BackStory on May 21, 2010
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