His take on history arms youth with the courage to “transform the world.” It’s no wonder the right aims to erase it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.
The history of labor in the region gets shouted down by corporations.
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.
The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.
The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.
Ken Burns talks to Jacobin about his new documentary, The American Revolution; the ongoing project of 1776; and why the Declaration of Independence was far more than a revolt of slaveholders and the wealthy.
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