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Topic: American History

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
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
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
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
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
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Wake up: The American Dream is dead

Anis Shivani
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America: Melting pot or a salad bowl?

Simon Greer - Independent Media Institute
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Trump's fake patriotism will win votes

Lucian K. Truscott IV
"The Socialist Manifesto" by Bhaskar Sunkara; An 11-panel mural depicting Maine's labor history. (Basic Books/AP/Clarke Canfield)

When Americans were communists

Bhaskar Sunkara
Donald Trump; John Adams (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump: Exactly what John Adams feared

Dean Obeidallah
The Ku Klux Klan protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Getty/Chet Strange)

Legacy of racial terror: 1898 and now

Wiley Cash
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