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Putin and Trump.

The Secret Life of Statutes: A Century of the Trading with the Enemy Act

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.
by Benjamin Coates via Modern American History on May 16, 2018

Why We Doubt Capable Children

How we inherited our modern understanding of childhood from the 18th-century revolutionary era.
by Julia M. Gossard via The Junto on April 17, 2018
National Guard on the Rio Grande.
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Can President Trump Legally Send Troops to the Border?

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.
by Kevin Adams via Made By History on April 17, 2018

How Congress Used the Post Office to Unite the Nation

Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.
by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on April 4, 2018

Congress Handed to the President the Power to Level Tariffs

A republic needs a legislature that can handle such tasks. We don’t have one.
by Jay Cost via National Review on March 5, 2018

Dred Scott Strains the Mystic Chords

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on March 5, 2018

James Madison Would Like a Few Words on Trade Wars

The fourth president tried all kinds of sanctions to open markets, but still ended up in the War of 1812.
by Noah Feldman via Bloomberg on March 5, 2018

Josef K. in Washington

A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
by David Luban via New York Review of Books on March 2, 2018
Drawing showing Nixon and Clinton in a criminal line-up

How Impeachment Works

It’s not enough to bring the articles of impeachment against an official – you have to convict them, too.
by Allyson Shwed via The Nib on February 23, 2018
Painting of a slave auction.

Teaching Hard History

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on January 31, 2018

What the Prisoners’ Rights Movement Owes to the Black Muslims of the 1960s

Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform.
by Christopher E. Smith, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on January 22, 2018
Trump smirking.

Was 2017 the Craziest Year in U.S. Political History?

A dozen historians weigh in.
by Heather Cox Richardson, Jack Rakove, Ron Chernow, Leo P. Ribuffo, David Greenberg, Nicole Hemmer, H. W. Brands, Jacqueline Jones, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Vanessa Walker, Joshua Zeitz, Elizabeth F. Ralph via Politico Magazine on December 29, 2017

When Speech Meets Hate

A legal expert offers a First Amendment analysis of the summer’s violent rallies.
by Frederick Schauer via Virginia Magazine on November 21, 2017

The Troubled Rise of the Technocrat

The notion that a government’s chief obligation is getting stuff done is a fairly recent arrival on the historical scene.
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on November 20, 2017

Confederate Revisionist History

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.
by Douglas Massey via Public Books on November 8, 2017
Original printing of the Articles of Confederation in a glass display case at Williams College in 2007.

‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution

What the political crisis in post-revolutionary America has to teach us about our own time.
by Richard Kreitner, George William Van Cleve via The Nation on October 23, 2017

How to Balance Competing Claims of Religious Freedom?

Peyote use has been defended with religious liberty arguments. So has Bible reading in public schools.
by Tisa Wenger via The Christian Century on October 16, 2017

Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State

The real history of the Second Amendment.
by Saul Cornell via The Baffler on October 3, 2017

No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound to Respect

The spectre of Dred Scott is haunting St. Louis.
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on September 27, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.
by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 2017

Where Did the Term 'Gerrymander' Come From?

Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on July 20, 2017
Allegorical lithograph entitled "Reconstruction," by J. L. Giles in 1867.
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Why the Second American Revolution Deserves as Much Attention as the First

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.
by Gregory P. Downs via Made By History on July 19, 2017

A Billionaires’ Republic

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Nation on July 11, 2017
Flag in front of a church.

What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.
by Sam Haselby via Washington Post on July 4, 2017

The Making of an Antislavery President

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on June 23, 2017

The Woman Whose Words Inflamed the American Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on June 20, 2017

Why America’s Founding Fathers Wanted the President to Take a Salary

One of the very reasons the framers wanted the president to take a salary, was to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
by Jena McGregor via Washington Post on March 15, 2017

What the Fugitive Slave Act Teaches Us About How States Can Resist Oppressive Federal Power

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 8, 2017

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.
by Rebecca Onion, Manisha Sinha via Slate on June 14, 2016
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