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  • Letters From an American
    Silencing Black Voters, Again
    March 29, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services.

  • Letters From an American
    As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation
    March 15, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Happy Birthday Maine
  • History
    Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on Reconciliation and Its Pitfalls
    January 28, 2021
    | Stephen West
    The post-Civil War years teach us the perils of heeding calls for reconciliation while ignoring those for justice.
  • 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



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