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How Slavery Haunts Today’s Big Debates About Federal Spending
John C. Calhoun knew what a strong federal government might do.
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Ariel Ron
via
Slate
on
September 22, 2021
The Case for Partisanship
Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.
by
Osita Nwanevu
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The New Republic
on
September 20, 2021
The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor
How a dark-money mogul bankrolled an astroturf backlash.
by
Jasmine Banks
via
The Nation
on
August 13, 2021
The Liberals Who Weakened Trust in Government
How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The New Republic
on
August 2, 2021
Frederick Douglass and the Trouble with Critical Race Theory
A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.
by
Robert S. Levine
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 2, 2021
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Before the Anti-CRT Activists, There Were White Citizens’ Councils
Banning such teaching isn’t colorblind; it would erase Black people from history and maintain White cultural dominance.
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David A. Love
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Made By History
on
July 28, 2021
The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6
How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
by
Bennett Parten
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 13, 2021
The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools
In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.
by
Gabriel Arana
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The New Republic
on
June 28, 2021
When Good Government Meant Big Government
An interview with Jesse Tarbert about the history of the American state, “big government,” and the legacy of government reform efforts.
by
Jesse Tarbert
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Law & History Review
on
June 16, 2021
The Fallacy of Religious Freedom
When the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ran for president, he wasn’t seeking further glory but a policy change in religious liberty.
by
Tamarra Kemsley
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
June 11, 2021
What Do Conservatives Fear About Critical Race Theory?
In the Texas legislature, Republicans seemed willing to acknowledge systemic racism but resistant to the idea of talking about it with children.
by
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
via
The New Yorker
on
June 10, 2021
A Radical Gettysburg Address
A behind-the-scenes look at Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
by
David T. Dixon
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Emerging Civil War
on
May 18, 2021
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
The Unreconstructed Radical
Thaddeus Stevens was a fierce opponent of the “odious” compromises in the Constitution, and of the North’s compromises after the Civil War.
by
Richard Kreitner
via
The Baffler
on
May 13, 2021
The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession
How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach.
by
Adam Harris
via
The Atlantic
on
May 7, 2021
The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized
An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.
by
Jane Mayer
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The New Yorker
on
May 6, 2021
Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
by
Doug Henwood
via
Jacobin
on
April 21, 2021
Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?
The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.
by
Michael Tomasky
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 11, 2021
In 1868, Black Suffrage Was on the Ballot
At the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue of the election was Black male suffrage.
by
Jordan Grant
via
Smithsonian
on
February 19, 2021
The Case for a Third Reconstruction
The enduring lesson of American history is that the republic is always in danger when white supremacist sedition and violence escape justice.
by
Manisha Sinha
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 3, 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
via
Facing South
on
January 22, 2021
A Constitution of Freedom
During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.
by
James Oakes
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
January 20, 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
The Party of Lincoln Ignores His Warning Against Mobocracy
“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 15, 2021
Long Before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and The GOP Purged John Birch Extremists From The Party
Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.
by
Erick Trickey
via
Retropolis
on
January 15, 2021
What Should We Call the Sixth of January?
What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
January 8, 2021
Meet Joseph Rainey, the First Black Congressman
Born enslaved, he was elected to Congress in the wake of the Civil War. But the impact of this momentous step in U.S. race relationships did not last long.
by
Bobby J. Donaldson
via
Smithsonian
on
January 4, 2021
The Organizer’s Mind of Martin Delany
Delany's insistence on interest-based coalitions, evident in his fiction and political prose, explains his late-Reconstruction defection to the Democrats and his strategies for revolution.
by
Andrew Donnelly
via
Insurrect!
on
January 4, 2021
How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?
If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
via
Boston Review
on
December 9, 2020
McCarthyism Was Never Defeated. Trumpism Won’t Be Either.
Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.
by
Beverly Gage
via
Washington Post
on
December 4, 2020
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