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Civil War
August 16, 2019
Magazine
Brenda Wineapple
Active Duty
Who wrote women out of Civil War history?
June 10, 2019
Michael Kazin
The Impossibility of Impeachment
Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.
November 28, 2018
Magazine
Gordon S. Wood
Battle Lines
Recovering the profound divisions that led to the Civil War
November 20, 2018
Matt Ford
The Case for the Union
The country is divided. We should still fight for it.
October 22, 2018
Eric Herschthal
When Violence Broke Out in Congress
A new book documents the legislative turmoil that led to the Civil War.
August 16, 2018
Matt Ford
Mississippi GOP Senate hopeful waxes plagiaristically poetic over Robert E. Lee.
July 11, 2018
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
How to Dig Up a Dictator
Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?
April 20, 2018
Magazine
Win McCormack
Are You Progressive?
How a vital term in U.S. political life lost its significance—and could regain it today
March 29, 2018
Magazine
Kim Phillips-Fein
Company Men
The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people
December 21, 2017
Magazine
Brenda Wineapple
Grand Illusions
How the ideal of a radically equal republic faded after the Civil War
November 1, 2017
Jeet Heer
Let’s Relitigate the Civil War
There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.
August 30, 2017
Scott Spillman
War, Civil War, or Revolution?
David Armitage's book tracks changing definitions of civil war, from Ancient Rome to the American Civil War to now.
August 23, 2017
Ismail Muhammad
America Has a Long Tradition of Racist Mob Violence
Charlottesville was just one in a long line of incidents of large-scale, organized white terrorism.
August 21, 2017
Sarah Jones
Conservatives are still arguing Confederate monuments are testaments to valor.
August 15, 2017
Jeet Heer
No, America is nowhere near a Civil War.
June 23, 2017
Eric Herschthal
The Making of an Antislavery President
Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
May 26, 2017
Casey N. Cep
Southern History, Deep Fried
John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food.
May 3, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump’s Ignorance Is Radicalizing U.S. Historians
They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?
May 2, 2017
Brian Beutler
Please proceed, President Shutdown.
May 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s Crude, Ignorant Theory of American History
His bizarre and mistaken beliefs about the past are a window into his mind—and serve his political agenda.
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