The Spirit of ’76

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

On the Responsibility of Historians

The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

Who Is History For?

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

The Long American Counter-Revolution

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

The Changing Same of U.S. History

Two books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over the implications of the American Revolution.

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