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Sean Wilentz

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October 31, 2014
Sean Wilentz
The Halloween Concert That Reinvented Bob Dylan
Philharmonic Hall, New York City, October 31, 1964
September 7, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Why Has the American Literary Canon Admitted So Few Historians?
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
January 19, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Would You Feel Differently About Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought?
November 18, 2013
Sean Wilentz
Does the Gettysburg Address Distract Us from the Real Lincoln?
A prominent historian on the politician behind the oratory
December 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg
September 7, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Blood and the Ballad: Bob Dylan’s Macabre New Album
June 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Efficacy and Democracy
October 26, 2011
Sean Wilentz
The Mirage
The long and tragical history of post-partisanship, from Washington to Obama.
October 1, 2011
Sean Wilentz
20 Years Later: How Bill Clinton Saved Liberalism From Itself
May 2, 2011
Sean Wilentz
Above and Beyond
November 9, 2010
Sean Wilentz
Live By the Movement, Die By the Movement
July 13, 2010
Sean Wilentz
George Steinbrenner (1930–2010)
Why I’m actually going to miss that meddlesome pain in the ass.
March 30, 2010
Sean Wilentz
States of Anarchy
January 25, 2010
Sean Wilentz
The Return of Ulysses
August 26, 2009
Sean Wilentz
Triumph And Tragedy
July 15, 2009
Sean Wilentz
Who Lincoln Was
February 27, 2008
Sean Wilentz
Race Man
February 13, 2008
Sean Wilentz
The Vital Centrist
April 7, 2003
Sean Wilentz
Freedoms and Feelings
July 2, 2001
Sean Wilentz
America Made Easy
McCullough, Adams, and the decline of popular history.

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