American History

America needs a new national story

Jim Sleeper

Despair, justice and Black History Month

Chauncey DeVega

Howard Schultz: Enemy of democracy?

Carl Pope

Trump's SOTU fiasco is unprecedented

Matthew Rozsa

Timothy Snyder: Trump is the emergency

Chauncey DeVega

America on the brink: Happy New Year?

Andrew O'Hehir

Reevaluating Thanksgiving

Robert Jensen

Making America’s wars great again

Arnold R. Isaacs

America veers closer to old Britain

J.M. Opal

Using finance to create justice

Patrick Lawrence

Why America won't declare war

Matthew Fay

Reckoning with American history

Bob Hennelly

Frederick Douglass: Hope on the Fourth

Chauncey DeVega

Trump: End of a long process

Paul Rosenberg

Slavery at Monticello acknowledged

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Donald Trump's empire of darkness

Chauncey DeVega

Roth, the great Jewish-American novelist

Brett Ashley Kaplan

Native identity erased from Appalachia

M.W. Flash Clark

My grandfather was my wingman

Lucian K. Truscott IV

History textbooks of the future

Andrew O'Hehir

Was the Confederacy really defeated?

Chauncey DeVega

The truth about LBJ and MLK

Phillip F. Nelson

Is Trump the worst ever?

Robert Reich

Why Rosie the Riveter "is not my icon"

Lauren Schiller

Grover Cleveland's big breakthrough

Matthew Rozsa

All the presidents' log cabins

Andrew Belonsky

The Irish helped Lincoln save the Union

Niall O'Dowd

Trump vs. Oprah: Celebrity monomania

Nancy Isenberg - Andrew Burstein

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