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Nancy Isenberg is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University and coauthor with Andrew Burstein of Madison and Jefferson.  Her latest book is White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.

Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson (Wikimedia)

It’s not Thomas Jefferson’s fault: Race, the Confederate flag and the new historic correctness

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
(Wikimedia/Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Donald Trump’s third-rate ego monument: The billionaire wanna-be president who makes Trump look like a chump

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
(AP/Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Chris Keane/Kevin Lamarque)

GOP’s toxic white male bluster: Trump, Cruz and Christie bully to overcompensate

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Rosa Parks (AP/Wikimedia)

Let’s boot Andrew Jackson too! We could have Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt on our currency

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Andrew Jackson, Robert F. Kennedy, Hillary Clinton (Wikimedia/AP/Demis Maryannakis)

America’s “scandal” problem: Andrew Jackson, RFK and today’s demented politics

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker (AP/John Minchillo/Jacquelyn Martin/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP’s anti-school insanity: How Scott Walker & Bobby Jindal declared war on education

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson, and David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

It’s not just “Selma”: Hollywood’s history problem

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Ronald Reagan (AP)

Conservatives’ pockmarked past: Who owns the soul of America?

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
(Reuters/Joe Burbank/Brendan McDermid/AP/Jason Decrow/photo montage by Salon)

This is our new Constitution: How we fix gun rights, the Supreme Court, inequality — and foster true democracy

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
A makeshift memorial for Michael Brown, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

Michael Brown, senseless death and the weight of history

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(AP/Molly Riley)

Bobby Jindal’s sad search: How he seeks political relevance in today’s GOP

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Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Rush Limbaugh (AP/Timothy D. Easley/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/AP/Chris Carlson)

GOP’s woman-haters club swells: Why their hatred is actually getting worse

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(Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com)

Ted Cruz’s cringe-inducing “humor”

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg

Politics of blaming the poor: Why it’s still Lyndon Johnson’s America

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Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Warren, Pope Francis (AP/Cill Allen/Reuters/Joshua Roberts/AP/Andrew Medichini)

Elizabeth Warren’s moral insight: How candid leaders can alter the course of history

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Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Ben Carson (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Ignorant Tea Party outrage: Sarah Palin’s latest Obamacare lie

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Thomas Jefferson, Pope Francis (White House Historical Association/Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi)

Why Jefferson would like Pope Francis (but not Ted Cruz)

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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Joshua Lott)

He predicted today’s GOP… in 1895

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Newt Gingrich, Mark Sanford, David Vitter (AP/Chuck Burton/Charles Dharapak/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP’s backward sexual politics

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(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

The problem with first ladies

Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein
Journalist Fareed Zakaria is seated during Harvard University commencement exercises before being awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP/Steven Senne)

America’s worst historians

Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein
James Madison and Rick Santorum (Wikipedia/Reuters/Rick Wilking)

Santorum mangles the Founding Fathers

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Will the prayers of Iowa voters be answered? (Reuters/Daniel Acker)

The trouble with “values voters”

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Jerry Sandusky and Alexander Hamilton (AP/LOC)

Less than a few good men

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