Mailbag
When Is History Advocacy?
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Advocacy should not be a dirty word.
Reviews
Madam Secretary
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Even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference.
Shorts
The Final Frontier of Civil-Military Relations
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The Federation’s structure creates tension between military and civilian leadership.
Reviews
What The New Right Learned In School
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Essential reading for anyone interested in higher education or Republican politics, either today or in the past.
Reviews
A Place for Berlinguer
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Enrico Berlinguer led the Italian Communist Party at the height of its power. A new exhibit at the Mattatoio grapples with his legacy.
Shorts
Deference and Doomposting
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Ironically, Chevron deference — which the conservative Supreme Court scrapped last month — began as a conservative legal tool.
In Solidarity—And Sometimes, In Tandem
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What is possible when white activists heed the call of the Black radical vanguard.
Reviews
The Problem of Plenty
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There was nothing inevitable about the kind of gun country the U.S. is today.
Postcards
A Postcard from Charlottesville, VA
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Sometimes it is good to remind oneself how lucky and abnormal this profession can be.
Shorts
The Committee to Keep Dick Tasting
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Hi, any chance you might have sent Richard Nixon a dick joke fifty years ago?
Shorts
From the American People
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How did human rights and development come to be so intertwined in U.S. foreign policy?
Shorts
The Strange World of AP U.S. History
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Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?
Shorts
The Electoral Punt
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It can be hard to know what the founders intended when they didn’t know, either.
Features
All the Presidents’ Librarians
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Despite being spied on and intimidated during my time in Yorba Linda, I still think presidential libraries are too important for historians to wash their hands of them.
Field Trip
The Archive after the Revolution
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They meant to remake the world, and they left quite the paper trail.
Shorts
Selling Angola
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It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. So who is going to its gift shop, and why?
Features
Did the Left Think Watergate Was a Distraction?
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Was the Left as skeptical about Watergate as it is today about the Trump-Russia story?