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Topic: American History (page 9)

(AP/Reuters/Steve Marcus/Mike Theiler/M. Spencer Green)

The GOP lie that won't go away

Sean Illing
Mickey Mouse, Noam Chomsky (AP/Dan Steinberg/Nader Daoud)

The right's big history lie

Andrew Hartman
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

"The party of white people"

David Sehat
(AP/Ron Edmonds)

Ronald Reagan's FDR side

H.W. Brands
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(AP/Reuters/David Manning/Jacquelyn Martin/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

Here's how the right wing dies

Heather Cox Richardson
The aftermath of the September 16, 1920 Wall Street bombing (Esemono/Wikimedia)

An attack that changed America

Elias Isquith
Police keep riots under control in the Watts area of Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 1965; A man stands in front of a line of police officers in riot gear, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP/David Goldman)

Baltimore: What "violence"?

Andrew O'Hehir
(Associated Press)

I was last out of Saigon

Christian Appy
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Ben Affleck (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Ben & Skip's Bogus Journey

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP)

We're not One Nation Under God

Michael Schulson
Tea Party activist William Temple listens as Newt Gingrich addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference, February 27, 2015. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The right flunks U.S. history

Elias Isquith
A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP)

FDR's Pearl Harbor nightmare

James M. Scott
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James Ashley (Wikimedia)

How slavery really ended

Leonard L. Richards
Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth (Wikimedia)

"I know I am in danger"

Joseph Wheelan
(AP/Wikimedia/Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Photo montage by Salon)

Jefferson's tortured afterlife

Andrew Burstein
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Eleanor Roosevelt (AP)

Inside the Roosevelt rivalry

Marc Peyser, Timothy Dwyer
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(AP/Scott Stewart/J. Scott Applewhite)

America's not a force for good

Christian Appy
Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, center, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand in Antietam, Md., after the Battle of Antietam on Oct. 3, 1862. (AP/Library Of Congress/Alexander Gardner)

Lincoln's Civil War brilliance

James M. McPherson
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

They've been treasonous before

Heather Cox Richardson
Glenn Beck, Cotton Mather, Jenny McCarthy (Reuters/AP/Wikimedia/Chris Keane/Fred Prouser)

Anti-vaxxers, atheism, history

Michael Schulson
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The real George Washington

Elias Isquith
Rand Paul, George Washington (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Wikimedia/Photo montage by Salon)

America's founding obsession

Andrew M. Schocket
Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama (AP/Alexander Gardner/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Salon)

Fox would've hated Lincoln

Paul Rosenberg
Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (Wikimedia)

Not a Christian nation

Laura Miller
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