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  • Letters From an American
    A National Day of Thanksgiving
    November 26, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Rather than being unprecedented, though, this year of hardship and political strife brings us closer to the first national Thanksgiving than any more normal year.

  • Letters From an American
    Biden Presses for Coronavirus Relief. Trump Golfs.
    November 22, 2020

    While the president golfs (his 298th while president), President-Elect Joe Biden is trying to pressure Congress to pass another coronavirus bill as the economy lurches toward another drop.

  • Letters From an American
    Danger to Democracy
    November 20, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump's team is making no pretense that Trump is the choice of a majority of voters-- Biden is ahead by almost 6 million votes. Rather, they are trying to game the Electoral College.

  • Letters From an American
    The GOP — Is Not the Party of Lincoln
    November 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Men like Abraham Lincoln organized to overturn the idea that they were mindless workers, doomed to menial labor for life. In 1859, Lincoln articulated a new vision for the nation, putting ordinary men, rather than elite slaveholders, at the heart of national development.

  • Letters From an American
    The RNC's Showstopper
    August 28, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The White House, the people’s house, was turned into the background for a political rally, emblazoned with flags and sporting jumbotrons that spelled out “Trump/Pence.”

  • History
    A Cautionary Tale About Getting Your History From Internet Memes
    August 28, 2020
    Please don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
  • The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
    August 27, 2020

    During her speech at the Republican National Convention, Lara Trump declared that Abraham Lincoln "once famously said, 'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.'" No, he didn't. What did he actually say?   Read The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Talks with Heather Cox Richardson About 'How the South Won the Civil War'
    July 30, 2020
    Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. It's all about America’s ongoing battle between oligarchy and democracy.
  • History
    We Are Radicals at Heart — Don't Forget It
    June 30, 2017
    | Harvey J. Kaye
    A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.
  • History
    Don’t Know Much About History
    May 2, 2017
    | Michael Winship
    Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That's dangerous for him and all the rest of us.


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