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Rededicate* 250
Trump’s “Rededicate 250” event reframes America as a Christian nation, despite the Constitution’s secular roots and “under God” being a 1950s addition.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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May 11, 2026
A Thousand Words
Protestors have long understood the importance of securing photographic images of their activism.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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February 12, 2026
Work in Progress: Resignations
DOJ civil rights lawyers' resignations after leaders' refusal to probe ICE murder echo past revolts as administrations tried to politicize the Division.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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January 13, 2026
Southern Strategies
You're misreading Lee Atwater’s infamous “southern strategy” quote as a confession.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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December 7, 2025
The White Civility Council
Media focus on Charlie Kirk's presentation style while downplaying what he said and did is reminiscent of 1950s strategies for legitimizing Jim Crow.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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September 13, 2025
Work in Progress: The Voting Rights Act
The often-overlooked institutions of the federal government truly do matter and so do the individuals who lead those institutions and give them direction.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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August 4, 2025
Welcoming Their Hatred
As Elon Musk and Donald Trump engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured destruction, social media saw record new levels of schadenfreude.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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June 6, 2025
Thou Shalt Not
How a Hollywood marketing campaign was responsible for the Ten Commandments being displayed in public all across the country.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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June 19, 2024
Of Little Faith
The relatively unknown Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been elevated to the powerful position of Speaker of the House.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Campaign Trails
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November 1, 2023
The GOP’s ‘Southern Strategy’ Mastermind Just Died. Here’s His Legacy.
Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Bill Kristol
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Nicole Hemmer
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Corey Robin
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Michael Barone
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Greg Sargent
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Washington Post
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October 12, 2023
How the Republican Majority Emerged
Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Dov Weinryb Grohsgal
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The Atlantic
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August 6, 2019
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Book
Myth America
: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
2023
Book
One Nation Under God
: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse
2015
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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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Missed America
When all the bad things America did are true, but none of the good things, something is amiss.
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The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up
If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.
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Making History Go Viral
Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.
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December 11, 2018
The Racist History of the ‘Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors
Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.
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Michael E. Miller
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Retropolis
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February 23, 2018
One Nation Under Gods
Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.
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Richard White
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March 22, 2017
How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry
The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?
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Katherine Kelaidis
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The New Republic
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July 6, 2026
The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute
Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.
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Sarah E. Bond
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January 22, 2025
Is the Age of the Resistance Historian Coming to an End?
People who study the past don’t always have special insight into politics. Recent events have made that crystal clear.
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July 11, 2024
No Atlanta Way
Stop Cop City meets the establishment.
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June 28, 2024
Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' Is Part of a Long Legacy with a Very Dark Side
The country song that pits idyllic country life against the corruption of the city is a well-worn trope. Aldean's song reveals the dark heart of the tradition.
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July 22, 2023
The Historians Take a First Crack at Donald J. Trump
On the promises and perils of very recent history.
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April 12, 2022
The Atlanta Way
Repression, mediation, and division of Black resistance from 1906 to the 2020 George Floyd Uprising.
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Sarah Abdelaziz
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October 4, 2021
Black People Are About To Be Swept Aside For A South Carolina Freeway — Again
In a planned highway widening project, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people.
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Darryl Fears
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September 8, 2021
What Trump Really Means When He Tweets “LAW & ORDER!!!”
A brief history of a political dog whistle.
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Beth Schwartzapfel
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The Marshall Project
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October 7, 2020
The Complex History of ‘In God We Trust’
President Trump claims that America is a nation based in faith. It’s more complicated than that.
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David Mislin
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February 8, 2018
Cyclorama: An Atlanta Monument
The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.
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Why Conservative Evangelicals Have Lined Up for Trump
It’s a match made in heaven.
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Is 2016 the Worst Year in History?
Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?
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