From Johnson’s “War on Drugs” to Clinton’s “Third Way,” the criminalization of black bodies in the postwar era has been, until recently, a decidedly bipartisan affair.
In August, 1991, a small group of hard-liners in the Soviet government staged a coup aimed at halting the popular anti-Communist, pro-freedom tide stirred by Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika.
Right-wing politicians in America, including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan, are echoing the views of the Revolutionary Guards. This is an old story.
The problem with Miranda's reading of history is that he assumes the liberal notion of a united nation, devoted to the common goals of freedom and equality, was any more real 225 years ago than it is today.
A white lower class not only figured more prominently in the development of the colonies and the young country than national lore suggests, but was spoken of from the start explicitly in terms of waste and refuse.
The political alliance Clinton-Kaine represents is as old as the American Republic itself: The Empire State and the Commonwealth of Virginia have played starring roles in American history since the country’s founding.
This week ... Historians Against Trump, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jack Censer, Ann Little, Rick Perlstein, Heather Cox Richardson, Simon Schama, David Greenberg and more!
