New perspectives on how history is made
One lesson is that the history of Gilded Ages is complicated and that should give us hope.
We’ve rejected racism, but it remains deeply embedded in our culture.
It’s an old story in American history—and it’s getting worse.
Most importantly, history shows that this kind of street action works.
Military spending already consumes 54 percent of the federal discretionary budget.
History suggests our tolerance for incivility has costs.
Yeah, he’s a jerk. Yeah, he’s immoral. Yeah, he’s profane. But Trump’s policies are moral.
His erratic behavior is reminding some of Nixon at the end of his presidency.
Adams and Jefferson showed that even the harshest partisans can enjoy a warm friendship. (It helped that they had a common enemy.)
It’s what happened after several headline-making shootings captured public attention a century ago.
Why this historian wonders about how different his life would have been if he had gone to college today.
His punk conservatism is juvenile, angry, and unsophisticated. Like 70’s punk rock, he relishes lashing out at authority.
We have a gun culture not because of the sanctity of the 2nd Amendment, but because killing, looting, burning, raping, and terrorizing Indians were an American tradition and militias helped carry out these horrors.
They've led on public health before.
We have it in our power to limit the use of both guns and bullets.
And then there’s the case of Donald Trump.
You can find the DNA of today’s far right in the slaveholders who precipitated the Civil War.
Was Graham responsible for the American evangelical alliance with the Republican Party or did he offer a different political model?
That’s the sad conclusion this presidents’ watcher has reached.
Bobby. Martin. Guns took their lives and robbed us of figures of moral authority.
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