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The Struggle Over the Meaning of the 14th Amendment Continues
The fight over the 150-year old language in the Constitution is a battle for the very heart of the American republic.
by
Garrett Epps
via
The Atlantic
on
July 10, 2018
Identity Politics Can Make or Break the Democratic Party
Racial justice energized the party in the past. It can today too.
by
Eric Schickler
via
Vox
on
April 16, 2018
The Party of Hubert Humphrey
The Democratic leader believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose.
by
James Traub
via
The Atlantic
on
April 7, 2018
This, Our Second Nadir
Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.
by
N. D. B. Connolly
via
Boston Review
on
February 21, 2018
How Country Music Went Conservative
Country music is assumed to be the soundtrack of the Republican Party. But it wasn't always that way.
by
On The Media
via
WNYC
on
October 6, 2017
Charlottesville and the Trouble with Civil War Hypotheticals
Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.
by
Jelani Cobb
via
The New Yorker
on
August 16, 2017
partner
A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before.
It ended in disaster.
by
Michael Todd Landis
via
HNN
on
July 9, 2017
The Price of Union
The undefeatable South.
by
Nicholas Lemann
via
The New Yorker
on
November 2, 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
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
Am I a Man?: The Fiery 1868 Speech By An Expelled Black Legislator In Georgia
The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly.
by
Henry McNeal Turner
,
Benjamin Barber
via
Facing South
on
September 3, 1868
partner
The Troubling Consequence of State Takeovers of Local Government
State efforts to usurp local government power over schools, elections, and police tend to diminish Black political power.
by
Domingo Morel
via
Made By History
on
October 25, 2024
A Brief History of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.
by
Doug Henwood
,
Adam Hilton
via
Jacobin
on
August 6, 2024
The Paradox of the American Labor Movement
It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.
by
Michael Podhorzer
via
The Atlantic
on
April 18, 2024
partner
How Abortion Took Over the Republican Party
Ronald Reagan proved instrumental to Southerners bringing their cultural conservatism to center stage for the Republican Party.
by
Jonathan Bartho
via
Made By History
on
April 12, 2024
How Washington Bargained Away Rural America
Every five years, the farm bill brings together Democrats and Republicans. The result is the continued corporatization of agriculture.
by
Luke Goldstein
via
The American Prospect
on
May 24, 2023
A Regional Reign of Terror
Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
by
Eric Foner
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 16, 2023
How the Right Turned “Freedom” Into a Dog Whistle
A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.
by
Eric Herschthal
via
The New Republic
on
December 8, 2022
The President Who Did It All in One Term — and What Biden Could Learn From Him
James K. Polk is considered one of the most successful presidents, even though he did not seek reelection.
by
Joshua Zeitz
via
Politico Magazine
on
December 2, 2022
How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans
Service members were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.
by
Matt Delmont
via
Mother Jones
on
October 6, 2022
original
What is Political Realignment?
An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the shifting sands of American politics.
by
Kathryn Ostrofsky
on
September 8, 2022
A Case of the Mondays
The beginning of the fight for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
by
Daniel T. Fleming
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 29, 2022
partner
How Conservatives Drove a Wedge Between Economic and Cultural Liberals
Elites understood that a unified left spelled doom for their economic advantages.
by
Jonathan Schlefer
via
Made By History
on
June 14, 2022
Tax Regimes
Historian Robin Einhorn reflects on Americans’ complicated relationship to taxes, from the colonial period through the Civil War to the tax revolts of the 1980s.
by
Robin Einhorn
,
Noam Maggor
via
Phenomenal World
on
March 24, 2022
Rise of the Far-Right Ultras
A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
January 11, 2022
partner
History’s Lessons for the Jan. 6 Committee
This isn’t the first time a House committee has investigated political violence in the Capitol.
by
Paul Quigley
via
Made By History
on
November 30, 2021
The Strange Career of Voting Rights in Texas
Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.
by
Derek C. Catsam
via
The Activist History Review
on
October 20, 2021
partner
The Electoral Count Act Is Broken. Fixing It Requires Knowing How It Became Law.
Trump tried to exploit flaws that were embedded in the law from the start.
by
Rachel Shelden
,
Erik B. Alexander
via
Made By History
on
October 8, 2021
A Warning Ignored
America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.
by
Jelani Cobb
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 29, 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
,
Chris Hong
,
Robert Manduca
via
Boston Review
on
May 18, 2021
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