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Frances Perkins, Modern Politics, and Historical Memory
The current political moment is reshaping the narrative about the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Made By History
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October 21, 2024
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A Classic Christmas Movie Offers a Lesson About Antisemitism
Nazis play a key role as villain in American collective consciousness—but without broad understanding of antisemitism.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Made By History
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December 21, 2023
Why the Philosophers Libertarians Love Always Come Out Worse for Wear
Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek have been through the wringer.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Slate
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December 5, 2022
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Attacking Sunday Voting is Part of a Long Tradition of Controlling Black Americans
The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Made By History
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March 4, 2021
No Refuge
When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Contingent
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August 23, 2019
Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War
The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
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May 15, 2018
How American Racism Shaped Nazism
Nazi Germany has closer ties to America and its history of institutionalized racism than some may think.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Black Perspectives
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October 5, 2017