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3 votes
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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 -
What is owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans
8 votes -
What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
4 votes -
The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
8 votes -
Phil Vischer, creator of VeggieTales, explains the history of racial inequality in America
20 votes -
The history of Coney Island
5 votes -
The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
8 votes -
The educational standardization trap
10 votes -
Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
4 votes -
Platforms, publishers, and presidents | Real Law Review
4 votes -
Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
17 votes -
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
32 votes -
President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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How 1960s black protests moved elites, public opinion and voting
@owasow: For 15 years, I've been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters. I'm thrilled some of that work was published last week. 1/ https://t.co/zzvvPTcgoP
5 votes -
How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
6 votes -
Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
6 votes -
"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967
9 votes -
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
5 votes -
The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
8 votes -
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
9 votes