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11 votes
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Political philosopher Robert B. Talisse explains his diagnosis and cure for the political polarization ailing America
2 votes -
Pope Francis appoints first African-American cardinal
12 votes -
Is the traditional ACLU view of free speech still viable? Ira Glasser speaks out.
12 votes -
Vote! (For Joe Biden (Who Sucks!))
26 votes -
Federalist 51 - The structure of the US Government must furnish the proper checks and balances between the different departments
6 votes -
The Million Man March: Powerful images of Black men and brotherhood twenty-five years ago
9 votes -
In Louisiana, Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity
10 votes -
The (modern) history of oil
3 votes -
How the 1619 Project took over 2020 in the US
6 votes -
The dollars and sense of free college - Georgetown University analysis of Biden's free college plan finds that it pays for itself within a decade
11 votes -
Last exit from autocracy
6 votes -
A libertarian walks into a bear: The utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)
11 votes -
Priest recorded having group sex on altar of Pearl River church, police say; three arrested
9 votes -
History of US political parties (part 1)
5 votes -
The non-voter
12 votes -
What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
9 votes -
What academics can do now to prevent a coup later
5 votes -
There is a button
10 votes -
AAVE (African American Vernacular English)
6 votes -
Sensory overload and annals of lying
3 votes -
Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
3 votes -
When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
8 votes -
From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century
4 votes -
Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
15 votes -
The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
11 votes -
Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
7 votes -
The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
11 votes -
An interview with Playboy magazine nearly torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential campaign: The pious Georgia Democrat spoke earnestly of his views on sex, a bridge too far for conservative Christians
6 votes -
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
16 votes -
August 6th, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
18 votes -
The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
23 votes -
20th-century slavery was hiding in plain sight: The El Monte sweatshop case exposed a web of corruption, and the enslavement of more than seventy Los Angeles area garment workers
6 votes -
Racism in the USA is higher among white Christians than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence
28 votes -
At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
35 votes -
How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
2 votes -
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
7 votes -
How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
5 votes -
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
3 votes -
Hiroshima (1946)
5 votes -
Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
5 votes -
Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war?
8 votes -
The history of the Inuit peoples, the world's most extreme survivors
4 votes -
What were the main issues in US politics from it's founding to when slavery became an important issue/the Civil War and what were the 2 parties of then about?
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them. The parts I'm most interested in are:...
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them.
The parts I'm most interested in are:
Why did it take until 1832 for the state legislatures to reach a consensus on how to elect people to the electoral college? I know states' rights are a big theme in US politics, but it seems really strange that it would take them 55 years to figure out how to pick the president, even if early on, that role was a lot less powerful.
Why were there so many parties before the US settled on the Democratic and Republican parties (although they have changed plentifully thanks to the US's 2-party political system where everyone needs to bundle up into 2 large coalitions or risk turning the US into a 1-party state.)
Why did they switch so often? From my count there are:
4 main parties being:
The Democratic-Republicans vs the federalists
The Whigs and National Republicans vs the (Jacksonian) Democrats
3 3rd parties being:
The anti-masonic party
The know nothing party/cult according to wiki apparently
The free soil/anti-slavery party
(Also in 1820 there was effectively no election, in 1824, 4 people of the same party all ran for president at once, in 1836 the same thing happened and 4 Whigs ran at once, but with Democratic opposition and 3 actually won votes while one just coasted off south Carolina. Why?)
Why were there so many large parties and what were all these parties about?
5 votes -
K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic
5 votes -
Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
10 votes -
When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
4 votes -
When proof is not enough: Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change
11 votes -
The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas
4 votes -
Judges gone wild! The Florida Supreme Court scandals of the 1970s make today’s political circus look tame by comparison
6 votes