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Antecedent
How Abortion Took Over the Republican Party
Ronald Reagan proved instrumental to Southerners bringing their cultural conservatism to center stage for the Republican Party.Made by History -
Origin Story
The Origins of Conservatism’s ‘Gnostic’ Meme
You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.The Bulwark -
Book Review
Waking From the Dream of Total Knowledge
Considering how relationships of cooperation and perhaps even solidarity might be forged between human beings and animals.The Hedgehog Review -
Book Review
A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution”
Why should taxpayers fund schools that violate their own values, the Moms for Liberty wonder? A new book traces how this kind of thinking about public spending came to be.Los Angeles Review of Books -
Biography
A Young Black Scientist Discovered a Pivotal Leprosy Treatment in the 1920s
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.The Conversation -
Book Review
Angels with Dirty Faces
How Keith Haring got his halo.Bookforum -
exhibit
1968 @50
A year of turmoil at home and abroad.
From the HNN Archive
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No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks
On the long tradition of Black third-party activism. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
Plate Tectonics
A Brief History of the License Plate