The centuries-long struggle to make the Constitution equal for all. STEVEN HAHN it’s safe to say that there hasn’t been a time since the Civil War era when the US Constitution—its meanings, rights, and protections, its checks and balances...
The art of the American Revolution over time and across generations. RACHEL HUNTER HIMES lthough i must have visited the metropolitan Museum of Art hundreds of times, I’ve never spared more than a glance for Washington Crossing the...
We must take up the banner of those brave Selma marchers. LETITIA JAMES on the 61st anniversary of bloody sunday, i joined the annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where John Lewis and other giants of the civil-rights movement endured the...
We asked prominent progressives: “Can America experience a new birth of freedom?” Senator Bernie Sanders: Over the past year, I must confess, I’ve been thinking a great deal about American history—about the men and women who, in 1776,...
The pamphleteer’s message still rings true 250 years later. JOHN NICHOLS in 1806, 30 years after he inspired the taxed-but-not-represented colonial subjects of King George III to rise up against “tyrannical monarchy”—with a promise that...
The entwined history of capitalism and race in the Americas and beyond. BILL FLETCHER JR. ihave grappled with the relationship between capitalism and race since I became a leftist. My path was far from direct, starting with developing...