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Trump Is the Enemy of the American Revolution
He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.
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Johann N. Neem
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The New Republic
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on
August 11, 2025
Bringing American History Back Home for the 250th
Challenges, opportunities, stakes.
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Johann N. Neem
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Perspectives on History
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July 14, 2025
Missed America
When all the bad things America did are true, but none of the good things, something is amiss.
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Johann N. Neem
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The Hedgehog Review
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July 7, 2023
The Struggle to Make the United States Secular
How progressives came to think that any recognition of Christianity by a public institution violates others’ rights.
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Johann N. Neem
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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July 15, 2022
A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation
We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.
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Johann N. Neem
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The Hedgehog Review
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July 8, 2022
Will We Still Be American After Democracy Dies?
Is being "political" the central force in our identities?
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Johann N. Neem
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Public Seminar
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July 7, 2020
Have We Lost Faith in Public Education?
Economic rationales for schooling are eroding democracy.
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Johann N. Neem
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Perspectives on History
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July 26, 2018
Common Core Is a Menace to Pluralism and Democracy
But can locally empowered communities really fix our schools' problems?
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Johann N. Neem
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The American Conservative
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June 19, 2018
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The New Tax Law Poses a Hidden Threat to American Democracy
Undermining public education will exacerbate polarization and mistrust.
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Johann N. Neem
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Tony Tian-Ren Lin
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Made By History
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January 8, 2018
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The Founding Fathers Made Our Schools Public. We Should Keep Them That Way.
They believed public schools were the foundation of a virtuous republic.
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Johann N. Neem
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Made By History
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August 20, 2017
Why Do Schoolhouses Matter?
The rise of public education in America.
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Johann N. Neem
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Public Seminar
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July 20, 2017
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How America Gave Up on Its Own History
Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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The Atlantic
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on
June 8, 2026
No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
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Eran A. Zelnik
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The Activist History Review
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November 8, 2022
The Spirit of ’76
What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.
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David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
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June 17, 2026
Trump's War on History
As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country’s future by bulldozing its past.
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Dan Friedman
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Amanda Moore
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Mother Jones
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February 3, 2026
