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Topic: American History

The Trump administration's attacks on accurate history at Smithsonian museums have led some historians to practice "guerrilla teaching." (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Historians fight Trump policing the past

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s hall of mirrors presidency

Chauncey DeVega
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America at 250 needs many stories

Jamie Holmes
US President Richard Nixon (left) and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk together, Washington DC, November 25, 1972. (White House via CNP/Getty Images)

New Kissinger doc gilds the stinkweed

Ken Hughes
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Armed groups hold a rally in front of a closed Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas,on January 17, 2021 during a nationwide protest called by anti-government and far-right groups supporting US President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election. The FBI warned authorities in all 50 states to prepare for armed protests at state capitals in the days leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. ((Photo by MatthePhoto by Matthew Busch/Getty Images)

Political violence is part of US history

Maurizio Valsania
Illustration of Puritan Lady and Gentleman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America's wildly contradictory sex story

Catherine M. Roach
A Stop The Steal is posted inside of the Capitol Building after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

"Free, white and over 21" lives on today

Yvette LaGonterie
Signing of the Declaration of Independence (Getty Images/Keith Lance)

Why France helped the Founding Fathers

Willard Sterne Randall
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Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold a rally outside the US Capitol as they protest the upcoming electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US President in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Wild myths I believed about white people

Darryl Robertson
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The rise of Christian Nationalism

Liz Theoharis - TomDispatch.com
Dan Abrams | Boston Massacre (AP Photo/Salon)

How John Adams changed legal history

Dean Obeidallah
Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

The climate crisis must reunite America

Peter Dale Scott
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James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Donald Trump (AP Photo/WikiCommons/John Trumbull/John Vanderlyn)

Founders' flaw: They expected decency

David Masciotra
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren speaking to crowds at their respective rallies. (Photo by Bauzen/GC Images/Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Sanders or Warren — or America's done

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Impeachment and historical memory

Henry A. Giroux
Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump and the "one-termers"

Matthew Rozsa
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Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon (Getty Images/Salon)

Impeachment: Clearing up a murky process

Matthew Rozsa
Bill Bar, Devin Nunes, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Will the GOP erase Trump from history?

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Constitution won't save us from Trump

Cody Cain
The First Thanksgiving, 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1863-1930, artist. Published by the Foundation Press, Inc., c1932. Photomechanical print halftone, colour. Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal. (Photo by: (Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The true story of the first Thanksgiving

Matthew Rozsa
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U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's fave president: Also a racist

Matthew Rozsa
Jonathan Holloway and Stephen Schwarzman (AP Photo/Getty Images/Yale Daily News/Julia Henry)

Two buildings at Yale: An American story

Jim Sleeper
Labor Strikes of old (Associated Press)

We don't honor the ideals of Labor Day

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Paul Ratje)

Wake up: The American Dream is dead

Anis Shivani
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