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August 24, 2013
Jelani Cobb
The Forgotten March on Washington
It never happened—but still had more impact than today's reenactment
August 22, 2013
Michael Kazin
The White Man Whose 'March on Washington' Speech You Should Remember Too
August 16, 2013
The New Republic Staff
What Wendy Davis Looked Like 20 Years Ago
The famous filibusterer as a Harvard Law Grad in 1993
June 26, 2013
Michael Kazin
Daniel Ellsberg, the Original Big Leaker
Why a decades-old act of defiance still hasn't been surpassed
June 17, 2013
Brendan I. Koerner
The Year of the Skyjacker
June 10, 2013
Maya Jasanoff
Hearts of Darkness
The incoherence of the British Empire
June 4, 2013
Michael Kazin
The Forgotten President
Woodrow Wilson was as important as FDR or LBJ. Why aren't we celebrating his 100th anniversary?
April 24, 2013
Nancy L. Cohen
Why America Never Had Universal Child Care
In 1971, a national day-care bill almost became law. Therein lies a story.
April 2, 2013
Michael Kazin
Before Stonewall
In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before
March 19, 2013
David Greenberg
Agit-Prof
Howard Zinn's influential mutilations of American history
March 8, 2013
Anna Clark
The Tyranny of the ZIP Code
They don't just locate us. They define us
February 20, 2013
Alan Taylor
How Ghastly Were the Beginnings of European America?
The Savage New World
February 18, 2013
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Uncomfortable Allies
February 10, 2013
Sam Tanenhaus
Original Sin
Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people
February 8, 2013
The New Republic Staff
From the Stacks
The Inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 20, 2012
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Archie Bunker's America: The GOP Takeover of Family Values
December 18, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Hands On—Does Handwriting Matter?
December 12, 2012
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
The Lost Generation: The End of the Russian Aristocracy
December 4, 2012
Henry Wiencek
The Storyteller—Thomas Jefferson’s Political Calculations
November 30, 2012
Jack Rakove
Rebel Without a Cause—A Narrow Approach to the American Revolution

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