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Trump Loves The 1890s But He’s Clueless About Them
The tariffs he keeps babbling about didn’t make that decade great. They helped usher in a depression.
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Eric Rauchway
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The Bulwark
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October 23, 2024
Obama's Original Sin
A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.
by
Eric Rauchway
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Boston Review
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April 23, 2019
The 2008 Crash: What Happened to All That Money?
A look at what caused the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
by
Eric Rauchway
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HISTORY
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September 14, 2018
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Why the New Deal Matters
Eric Rauchway
2021
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Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.
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Michael Kazin
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The Nation
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July 26, 2021
The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Atlantic
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January 31, 2019
The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up
If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
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Paul M. Renfro
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Slate
on
January 9, 2023
FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days
Let's talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.
by
Jordan Weissmann
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Slate
on
May 1, 2021
The New Deal and Recovery
In the series of posts to follow, I hope to introduce my readers to evidence casting doubt on the view that New Deal programs ended the Great Depression.
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George Selgin
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Alt-M
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June 12, 2020
