July 12, 2026 “Do You Understand Your Own Language?” Robin D. G. Kelley Hammer & Hope Black radicals read the Declaration of Independence.
June 28, 2026 Lessons From the People’s Historian, Howard Zinn Dave Zirin The Nation His take on history arms youth with the courage to “transform the world.” It’s no wonder the right aims to erase it.
June 22, 2026 Did Kamala Harris’s Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House? Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.
June 18, 2026 How Socialism Built the Reddest States in the West Jeff Guay High Country News The history of labor in the region gets shouted down by corporations.
June 14, 2026 The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution Jamelle Bouie The New York Times In past eras of American politics, the people, through their representatives in Congress, have shaped and settled constitutional meaning, rebuking the court when it overstepped its role as a legitimate actor.
June 14, 2026 How Raoul Peck Became a Cinematic Griot Lovia Gyarkye Hammer & Hope The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
June 1, 2026 The American Revolution Is Not Complete Eric Herschthal The New Republic Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.
May 31, 2026 Birthright Citizenship Existed Before the Fourteenth Amendment Van Gosse History News Network The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
May 31, 2026 Archiving Joy Emma Janssen The American Prospect At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
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