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What Trump Gets Right—and Progressives Get Wrong—About Andrew Jackson

In the 19th century, Jackson broadened the electorate, but the self-righteousness of some Democrats impedes their efforts to do the same.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic
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on May 2, 2017

Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on March 15, 2017

The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.
by Robert Lee via Slate
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on March 1, 2017

American History: Fake News That Never Goes Away — and Empowered the Trumpian Insurrection

Only if we face the painful lies we tell ourselves about the past can we hope to overcome what's happening now.
by Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein via Salon on February 25, 2017

Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.
via Politico Magazine on January 22, 2017
John Singleton Copley painting of British soldiers fighting.

The Accidental Patriots

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.
by Caitlin Fitz via The Atlantic
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on December 1, 2016

Were the Framers Democrats?

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.
by Cass R. Sunstein via The New Rambler on October 31, 2016
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s
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on October 1, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, and the cast of "Hamilton" at the Richard Rodgers Theater.

Father Worship

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.
by Peter Manseau via The Baffler
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on September 6, 2016

Forget Hamilton, Burr Is the Real Hero

We can learn more from him in today's political world.
by Carey Wallace via TIME on April 14, 2016

A Hamilton Skeptic on Why the Show Isn’t As Revolutionary As It Seems

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."
by Lyra Monteiro, Rebecca Onion via Slate
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on April 5, 2016
Abolitionist image of an enslaved man in chains and the words "Am I not a man and a brother?"

The Truth About Abolition

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.
by Adam Rothman via The Atlantic
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on April 1, 2016
Cast members from Hamilton singing at the White House.

Liberals Love Alexander Hamilton. But Aaron Burr Was a Real Progressive Hero.

Why Broadway's biggest villain is worth a second look.
by Nancy Isenberg via Washington Post
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on March 30, 2016
An illustration of Weyer’s Cave from 1858.

The 19th Century ‘Show Caves’ That Became America’s First Tourist Traps

Novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia.
by Alicia Puglionesi via Atlas Obscura on March 2, 2016
Lewis and Clark expedition, with Sacagawea whitened out in the center.

How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.
by Natalie Shure via BuzzFeed News on October 11, 2015

The Split Personality of Ken Burns’s “The Civil War”

The documentary's accommodation of the Lost Cause narrative may have left viewers with a skewed understanding of the conflict.
by Kevin M. Levin via Civil War Memory on August 31, 2015
Shakers stand in rows dancing.

A Different Story of What Shaped America

In the decades following the American Revolution, it was American Protestantism that was most important in shaping the development of American nationalism.
by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books
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on July 9, 2015

3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on July 2, 2015

What Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Actually Do?

It was motivated in part by white Southerners' concerns about taxes, but ended up being all about maintaining their political power.
by Alex Sayf Cummings via Tropics of Meta on April 17, 2015

The Civil War Isn’t Over

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic
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on April 8, 2015
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