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Columnists

Don’t Believe the Republicans. The Fix is In

The only authority they respect is theirs

February 11, 2021 • by John Stoehr

I know what Mitch McConnell said, but I’m not a fool. Neither are you. He continues to leak information about “his thinking” to reporters who in turn tell us the Senate minority leader believes a vote for Donald Trump’s guilt or innocence is a matter of conscience in his party, ...

Don’t Believe the Republicans. The Fix is In

Columnists

The Case for Impeachment

As Donald Trump’s second trial begins, Representative Raskin warns the Senate that to not convict is to invite future presidents to do whatever they need to do to hold on to power

February 11, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

The second impeachment trial for former president Donald J. Trump began on February 9, this time for incitement of insurrection against the American government. Still, the people who are really on trial are the 50 Republican senators judging Trump’s guilt. The impeachment trial, this time around, covered whether it is constitutional to ...

History

Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

With Welcome to Your Fantasy, a well-known history podcasting team takes on the Chippendales dancers

February 10, 2021 • by Claire Potter, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

"with that, this interview is history."...

Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

Announcements

How to Publish a Journal Article

Join a FREE webinar on Feb. 9

February 8, 2021 • by Claire Potter

Join the FREE webinar focused on “How to Publish a Journal Article,” on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 7 p.m. EST, as part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s 2020-2021 annual meeting. Bring your questions for journal editors and authors! Registration is FREE but it is required, just click here. The process of writing, revising, and, ...

Announcements

Conference Announcement: Memory Studies Group 2021 Online Conference

January 29, 2021 • by Linus Glenhaber

Call for Papers (February 15, 2021 Deadline) Augustine of Hippo (353-430 AD) stated in his Confessions that “if the present were always present, and did not pass into past time, it obviously would not be time but eternity” (Book 11, section 14.17). Uncannily, this phrase echoes our suspended present enforced by COVID-19. It is ...

Columnists

The Trump Administration Wanted You and Your Kids to Get Sick

December 17, 2020 • by Heather Cox Richardson

The reality that Joe Biden is about to become president, and Kamala Harris vice president, is sinking in across Washington, and we now have some indications of what that’s going to mean. Stories about what exactly happened in the Trump administration are coming out, and they are not pretty. For members ...

The Trump Administration Wanted You and Your Kids to Get Sick

Announcements

Ann Snitow Prize Awarded to Barnard Historian and Activist Premilla Nadasen

Nadasen’s work elevating the voices of poor and low-income Southern women has earned her the Prize’s inaugural award

December 16, 2020 • by Judith Levine

The Awards Ceremony will take place, via Zoom, on January 14 at 6 PM. It will feature a conversation about care work, race, and grassroots organizing between Professor Nadasen and the historian, writer, and longtime activist Barbara Ransby. Ann Snitow was a feminist writer and teacher best remembered for her critical ...

Ann Snitow Prize Awarded to Barnard Historian and Activist Premilla Nadasen

Columnists

Yes, Biden Should Call Out Trump’s Lawlessness

We can’t ignore it. We must face it head-on

December 15, 2020 • by John Stoehr

Joe Biden is full of surprises. After the Electoral College met Monday to finalize the results of the election, the President-Elect delivered a speech I never thought he’d deliver. He did not say you’re with us or against us, but that’s what he righteously implied. And by implication, Biden gave a ...

Yes, Biden Should Call Out Trump’s Lawlessness

Capitalism

How Do We Process the Loss of Our Homes?

A talk with filmmaker Swetha Regunathan

December 10, 2020 • by Jeannette Estruth

By all measures we are living in an era defined by housing crises, a flood of human habitat destruction. The losses are both economic and environmental. Over 17 million people in 2018 alone were displaced from their homes because of climate change–associated disasters, according to the United Nations. Here in ...

How Do We Process the Loss of Our Homes?

Columnists

The Rev. Raphael Warnock Speaks With Righteous Religious Authority—and I Would Know

Yes, Christians can be pro-choice

December 9, 2020 • by John Stoehr

As you know, the Rev. Raphael Warnock is running to represent the state of Georgia in the US Senate against incumbent Republican Kelly Leoffler. Their runoff next month, as well as the one between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue, is the site of intense national focus. If the Democrats ...

The Rev. Raphael Warnock Speaks With Righteous Religious Authority—and I Would Know

Democracy

Donald Trump’s Lies

Why presidential falsehoods are part of United States political history

December 8, 2020 • by Eric Alterman and Claire Potter

Do Americans think presidential lying no longer matters? Perhaps a better question, journalist and historian Eric Alterman asks in his new book, Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie—and Why Trump is Worse (Basic Books, 2020), is whether it ever mattered to voters. Following in the tradition of Isadore F. “Izzy” ...

Columnists

Joe Biden’s Masculinity Is Anything But Toxic

How republican virtue is part of manliness

December 3, 2020 • by John Stoehr

“Virtue-signaling” is the idea that people say they believe something but don’t really believe it. They’re saying it to seem impressive to people they desire to impress. Everyone does this to some degree, and everyone deserves some degree of takedown. But if anyone has a corner on the market of ...