Richard White

Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, is author, most recently, of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America.

Trump’s Jacksonian Moment

A biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history and reveals disturbing parallels with Trump.

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One Nation Under Gods

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

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Antimonopolists thought employees should have a say in the conditions of working life.

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God’s Country

The making of American exceptionalism.

  • Richard White

Before Greed

Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches

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