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African-American Voters Have an Understandable Reason to Support Hillary Clinton

by Eric Foner

“[F]or black Carolinians, the challenge today seems to be holding on to gains that are under assault rather than seeking further progress. It is not surprising that voters in this situation prefer a familiar candidate who seems to promise progress, even if incremental, rather than a lesser-known insurgent from a virtually all-white state with a sweeping but seemingly utopian agenda."

What's wrong with our politics? What Thomas Frank & Steve Fraser think.

by Beverly Gage

In a book review, Beverly Gage critiques two books:  Thomas Frank's "Listen Liberal" and Steve Fraser's "The Limousine Liberal."

We can celebrate Harriet Tubman without disparaging Andrew Jackson

by Jim Webb

Far too many of our most important discussions are being debated emotionally, without full regard for historical facts.

The Party of Lincoln in the Time of Trump

by Sidney Blumenthal

The Republicans are now going the way of the Whigs—by embracing the politics that helped destroy them.

The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t

by Rebecca Gordon

The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah

Who should Trump and Clinton pick as running mates? This research says it doesn’t really matter.

by Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko

Much of what you’ve been told about the importance of the usual factors is wrong.

The Racist, Twisted History of Tipping

by Maddie Oatman

Gratuities were once an excuse to shortchange black people. In fact, they still are.

Who is “victorious?”: transformed American meanings of war and power

by Louis René Beres

What if there is no longer a meaningfully determinable way to calculate victory and defeat?

Alan Turing was one of many persecuted by Whitehall for their sexuality

by Dan Lomas

While certainly welcome, the focus on Turing’s story has overshadowed the plight of other individuals in similar circumstances.

Stop clinging to the Founding Fathers: The Andrew Jackson/Hamilton/Tubman debate is really about honest history

by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

Our candidate for a white guy on our currency would be Albert Gallatin, not Alexander Hamilton.

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Top 7 ways Harriet Tubman is the most Badass Spy & Warrior ever to grace US Currency

by Juan Cole

That’s right. She was Jane Bond in the mid-19th century.

When First Ladies Played Offense

by Kate Andersen Brower

Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump have nothing on the Lady Bird Special.

Avenging Angels

by Rick Perlstein

The New York Values that Shaped Donald Trump

Video of the Week: Masculine Women! Feminine Men! (1926)

“It’s hard to tell the rooster from the hen.”

The surprising origins of the income tax

by Robin Einhorn

Instead of class struggle, sectionalism might be the best way to understand the history of the income tax in the United States.

Ripples From a Protest Past

by Ian Wilhelm

In 1969, an armed occupation by black students roiled Cornell’s campus. Here’s why it still matters today.

Bernie Sanders thinks the Democratic primary process ‘distorts reality.’

by Boris Heersink

Does history back this up?