Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? The biggest danger today: a vengeful would-be dictator and a cultist Christian nationalist movement that are reaching for absolute power in our country. Please help us to inform, to mobilize and to inspire the forces of multi-racial, radical, inclusive democracy to defeat this threat in 2024.
Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.
Biden seeks counsel from a group of scholars who aren’t deeply versed in the racial threat to our democracy
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Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project insist the facts don’t support its proslavery reading of the American Revolution. But they obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over that very issue.
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The book version of the famed (and reviled) magazine issue is much longer, easier to read, and changed in canny ways that will help it endure.
How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.
The GOP's attacks on teaching accurate history have sparked a new whitewashing industry. But what would a GOP-approved history book look like?
History is politics by other means, and we who care about it have to fight this war better and more strategically ourselves. We need history that can get us marching but also render us awed by how much there is to learn.
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