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The Post-World War II System Was Always Fragile
Franklin Roosevelt warned that even in peacetime, America’s obligations to the world would continue.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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Foreign Policy
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May 12, 2025
The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question
Is this America?
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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August 17, 2024
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The New Republic
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May 2, 2024
The Cost of Overcorrecting on Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam
For years, LBJ was reviled for Vietnam. Then the historical tables turned in his direction. But they turned a little too far.
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Fredrik Logevall
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The New Republic
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December 2, 2023
Why Billionaires With Big Egos Now Dream of Being President
The trends that brought us Howard Schultz (and Donald Trump) started in the 1970s.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Julian E. Zelizer
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Washington Post
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January 29, 2019
A 1985 Recount Is Suddenly Relevant Again
In the fight over Indiana’s Bloody Eighth, Democrats won the seat, but lost the larger narrative.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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November 12, 2018
Trump's Nixon-Style Enemies List
The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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August 19, 2018
How Conservatives Won the Battle Over the Courts
The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years and requires a ruthless disposition.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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July 7, 2018
How the 1970s Shaped Trump's Vision
The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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April 8, 2018
What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement
The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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March 23, 2018
How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government
Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.
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Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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January 15, 2018
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Myth America
: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
2023
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The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
: A First Historical Assessment
Julian E. Zelizer
2022
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The Historians Take a First Crack at Donald J. Trump
On the promises and perils of very recent history.
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Will Support Grow for Impeaching Trump? Data on Nixon Offers a Clue.
The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.
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The End of Resistance History
What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?
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How Congress Is Written Out of History
Congress's role in shaping policies like the Affordable Care Act and exonerating Port Chicago sailors is often overlooked, overshadowed by the president.
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The Wild History of “Lesser of Two Evils” Voting
For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.
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Ginny Hogan
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March 19, 2024
The 1948 Democratic National Convention Is the Missing Link in Civil Rights History
Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality
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Bob Dole’s Disability Rights Legacy Marked the End of a Bipartisan Era
The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans With Disabilities Act but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law.
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Erica Garcia
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December 5, 2021
Is a Democratic Wipeout Inevitable?
Even when the president’s party passes historic legislation, voters don’t seem to care.
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Ronald Brownstein
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The History of the “Riot” Report
How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
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Jill Lepore
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June 15, 2020
What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing
The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.
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Daniel Geary
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