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Ronald Reagan at a news conference in Los Angeles on Jan. 4, 1965, after announcing that he would run for governor of California.

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

Person wearing pro-Trump attire in front of the U.S. Capitol.

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

Portrait of Martin Delany in uniform

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

a stadium full of people

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

Rudy Giuliani speaking at a Trump rally

Republicans Won’t Speak Out Against Trump Because They’re Afraid Politically

And history says they have a reason to be.

by Michael Koncewicz via Made By History on November 20, 2020

Illustration of a black man laying on the ground while three men step on him, 1868.

Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The Political Violence of 1868

The 1868 Election was the first one in which hundreds of thousands of African American men voted. It also began an unfortunate history of voter suppression.

by Patrick Young via Emerging Civil War on November 6, 2020

Drawing of Lincoln with his hand on a Bible during a swearing-in with two other people

The Presidential Transition That Shattered America

A Trump-Biden transition is sure to be scary. But it’d be hard to beat Buchanan-Lincoln.

by Rebecca Onion, Susan Schulten via Slate on October 28, 2020

A row of Supreme Court justices.

Amid National Crises, Lincoln and His Republicans Remade the Supreme Court to Fit Their Agenda

Political contests over the ideological slant of the Court are nothing new.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via The Conversation on October 12, 2020

A political cartoon featuring Uncle Sam holding a magnet.

America's Unending Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy

A new book charts the long contest between elites and the forces of democracy seeking to dismantle their power.

by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on October 6, 2020

Police Officers observing and guarding.

Trump's War on Election Integrity Follows a Racist Playbook Used in 1980s Orange County

As Trump calls for legions to, as he proclaimed, 'go into the polls,' we should recall the sordid episode of voter intimidation that happened in Orange County.

by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on October 1, 2020

The Trump family at a public event

Why is the Nationalist Right Hallucinating a ‘Communist Enemy’?

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.

by Richard Seymour via The Guardian on September 26, 2020

How Abraham Lincoln Fought the Supreme Court

As Lincoln recognized, it's not enough to question the decisions, justices, or even the structure of the Court. We need to challenge the foundation of its power.

by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on September 19, 2020

Donald Trump

Even After Their Fearmongering Proves Wrong, Republicans Keep at It. Here’s Why.

For close to a century, conservatives have seen all government programs as the road to socialism.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on August 31, 2020

Stop Worrying About Protecting ‘Taxpayers.’ That Isn’t the Government’s Job.

Republicans are replacing the public good with a far narrower definition of it.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Washington Post on August 3, 2020

The Death of Hannah Fizer

Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.

by Barbara J. Fields, Adam Rothman via Dissent on July 24, 2020

Lincoln’s Paramilitaries, the “Wide Awakes,” Helped Bring About a Political Revolution

In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.

by Matthew E. Stanley via Jacobin on July 11, 2020

Barry Goldwater speaking at a 1964 rally, placing his finger over his lips.

The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy”

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.

by Bruce Bartlett via The New Republic on June 29, 2020

Toppled Howitzers Monument in Richmond, VA

American Oligarchy

A review of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America."

by Nicholas Misukanis via Commonweal on June 23, 2020

We Used to Run This Country

Iran and surplus imperialism.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on June 22, 2020

A shot from behind of Rush Limbaugh giving a speech at a Make America Great Again rally.

The Right’s Reign on the Air Waves

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party.

by Jake Bittle via The New Republic on June 1, 2020

The Making of the Radical Republicans

How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?

by Eric Foner via The Nation on May 5, 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

John Sherman’s Struggle to Preserve Democracy

This is not the first time that democratic governance appeared to be under assault.

by Daniel W. Crofts via Muster on March 17, 2020

The Loser King

Failing upward with Oliver North.

by Matt Hanson via The Baffler on March 10, 2020

4 Contested Conventions in Presidential Election History

Having a single candidate by the time of the convention has been a key stepping stone for a party’s victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.

by Lesley Kennedy via HISTORY on March 4, 2020

How Biden vs. Sanders Echoes a 1964 Republican Party Split

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the icons of an ideological split among today’s Democrats, echoing a similar split in the Republican party of 1964.

by Matt Spolar, Sianne Garlick, Karen M. Sughrue via Retro Report on March 4, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020

Watercolor of Abraham Lincoln with soldiers in swirls of red across his face.

Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t.

by Andrew Ferguson via The Atlantic on February 15, 2020

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