Trump’s assault on the 2030 census is misguided and damaging, says the nation’s pre-eminent historian on the U.S. Census.
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Bryan Stevenson: “Ignorance Makes You Vulnerable”
The criminal justice advocate and civil rights leader on his work, the war on accurate American history, and grace for those consumed by hate.
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Blood on the U.S. Senate Floor
The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War and has echoes in our own violent times.
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Birthright Citizenship: Supreme Court Could Create an Exploitable Noncitizen Class
Trump’s bid to strip birthright citizenship from millions is a moral, administrative, and legal catastrophe that the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted to prevent. That’s why he’s pursuing it.
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Slavery Was Bad and Must Be Remembered
President Trump declared “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL,” but what’s awry, writes a constitutional scholar, is forgetting American history.
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The Lost Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Trump Saloon!
The Washington Monthly unearths the unknown 1858 debate in which the very nasty–and, frankly, very rude–press corps is totally unfair to Mr. Lincoln, our second greatest president after Donald J. Trump.
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Disordering Our National Myths
The Founders, the Pioneers, the Movement, the Lost Cause—the more driving myths one identifies, the more our true national character is obscured.
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Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten War
The 18th president continued his Civil War battles with an all-out fight against the Ku Klux Klan. The history books barely mention it.
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Protecting the Constitution from Trump
Insurrectionists are ineligible to serve without congressional amnesty. Here’s how states can enforce this.
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Emancipation Relocation
In 1848, at a time when Black families were routinely ripped apart and Black bodies were bought and sold in public squares as chattel, a Black man and his mixed-race wife pulled off one of the most daring and ingenious feats of self-emancipation imaginable. Defying conventions of race, class, and gender, William and Ellen Craft […]
