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January 2, 2018
Andrew Lanham
How to Abolish War
Three new books trace a century of antiwar activists' visions for a more equal, peaceful world.
August 15, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Racism, Medievalism, and the White Supremacists of Charlottesville
The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.
May 1, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump doesn’t know why we had a Civil War.
February 28, 2017
MagazineJesse Walker
All the President’s Phantoms
Trump isn’t the first conspiracy theorist in chief—just the most shameless.
July 6, 2016
Sarah Marshall
The White Trash Theory of Donald Trump
Nancy Isenberg's new book tells the story of a large and forgotten class of “waste people.”
November 21, 2014
Jason Zengerle
The Man Who Was Everywhere
The serendipitous political career of Harris Wofford
June 18, 2014
John B. Judis
Meet the Sarah Palin Enthusiast Who May Have Been the Best American Historian of His Generation
May 20, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Get Ready for a National Debate About Slavery Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates makes his case in The Atlantic's new issue
April 26, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Barack Obama Revived George Bush's Popularity (But Not for the Reason You Think)
March 19, 2013
David Greenberg
Agit-Prof
Howard Zinn's influential mutilations of American history
July 18, 1988
Henry Fairlie
Henry Fairlie on What Europeans Thought of Our Revolution
It really was a shot heard round the world.

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