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Ronald Reagan pointing at a graph explaining his tax policy.
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Inflation Opened the Door to American Neoliberalism

An excerpt from "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism."
by Thom Hartmann via HNN on September 11, 2022
Whole Wheat Shell Pasta on Grey, by artist Rachel Doom, 2019.

Wielding Wheat

A new history makes a case for the world-ordering power of wheat.
by Daniel Immerwahr via New York Review of Books on July 1, 2022
Stock photo of tomatoes.

The Southern Story of Tomatoes

Tales of the treasured South American-born, Southern-bred vegetable (yes, vegetable).
by Caroline Sanders Clements via Garden & Gun on June 8, 2022
Norman Mailer, left, with Jimmy Breslin, in the garment district of New York during his 1969 race for mayor.

Secessionist City

While New York has yet to break away from the rest of the country, it's not for lack of trying.
by William Hogeland via Paloma Media on December 14, 2021
Depiction of an agricultural fair with crowds of people gathered around exhibit halls.

Slavery, Technology and the Social Origins of the US Agricultural State

Ariel Ron discusses the rise of the agricultural state in his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic.
by Ariel Ron via Broadstreet on September 3, 2021
Illustration of Jon Meacham

The Man Who Loved Presidents

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.
by Thomas Frank via Harper’s on June 10, 2021

Daniel Webster, Yankee National Conservative

What 'the forgotten man of American conservatism' has to say about current debates on the right.
by Joseph S. Laughon via The American Conservative on May 12, 2020

When Adding New States Helped the Republicans

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.
by Heather Cox Richardson via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019

In Search of George Washington Carver’s True Legacy

The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts.
by Rachel Kaufman via Smithsonian on February 21, 2019

Trump’s Nineteenth-Century Grand Strategy

The themes of his UN General Assembly speech have deep roots in U.S. history.
by Charles A. Kupchan via Foreign Affairs on September 28, 2018

Can History Avoid Conspiracy?

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
by Andy Seal via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 4, 2018
U.S. government medical marijuana crop at University of Mississippi.
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Jeff Sessions is a Hypocrite on States’ Rights. But So is Everyone Else.

Champions of states' rights love federal power when it suits their goals — like Sessions's anti-marijuana crusade.
by Benjamin E. Park via Made By History on January 10, 2018
House destroyed by hurricane in Puerto Rico.
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Decisions More Than a Century Ago Explain Why The U.S. Has Failed Puerto Rico in Its Time of Need

Fears about trade prompted the decision to make Puerto Rico a colony.
by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on October 3, 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

An Enemy Until You Need a Friend

The role of "big government" in American history.
by Steven Conn via Origins on November 1, 2014

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