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Topic: American History (page 4)

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Columbus Day is not a day of hope

Jeremy Lent
National Museum of African American History and Culture (AP/Susan Walsh)

Year One of the Museum of Hard Truths

Robert L. Wilkins
"Waiting Room for White Only" (AP)

How a racist is made — and unmade

Robin Lindley
Kurt Andersen (Random House/Thomas Hart Shelby/AP/Paul Sancya/Photo montage by Salon)

Kurt Andersen in "Fantasyland"

Andrew O'Hehir
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Nixon, Vietnam & polarization politics

Ken Hughes
Thomas Jefferson; Donald Trump; Teddy Roosevelt (AP/Evan Vucci/Getty/AlexLMX/ peterspiro)

How will history view the Trump era?

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Benjamin Lay painted by William Williams (Wikimedia)

A radical for our time

Marcus Rediker
Alexander Hamilton (Getty)

Inside Hamilton's first battle

Phillip Thomas Tucker
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Trump's Afghan contradiction

Paul Rosenberg
Detroit (Annapurna Pictures)

Detroit is not a movie

Frank Joyce - Alternet
Donald Trump; Reinhold Niebuhr (Getty/Olivier Douliery/Wikimedia)

What would Niebuhr say?

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg

Our forgotten Native history

Matthew Rozsa
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The Battle Of Bunker Hill In 1775 During The American Revolution (Getty/traveler1116)

America’s violent birth

Holger Hoock
(Wikimedia)

Trump vs. the Declaration

Matthew Rozsa

Read the Bill of Rights

James Madison
Benedict Arnold; Michael Flynn (AP/Susan Walsh/WikiMedia)

Tale of a traitor

Heather Digby Parton
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Read the Constitution

The Constitutional Convention
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White folks: Read Douglass

Chauncey DeVega

Read the Declaration

Thomas Jefferson
Mike Lee (AP/Molly Riley/Penguin Random House)

Mike Lee's bad history

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
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(Gail Brousal)

"Autumn of the Black Snake"

William Hogeland
(Courtesy of the Author)

slavery in the family

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Abraham Lincoln; Donald Trump; Jefferson Davis (Reuters/Rick Wilking/Wikimedia/Salon)

Trump embraces the Confederacy

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Getty/Wikimedia/Salon)

Trump's history lessons

Heather Digby Parton
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