Current Events that Relate to History

For decades, the US seriously pursued the idea of ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’

How a 1970s Proposal to ‘Export Products, Not People’ North of the Border Got Rejected.

How myth-making about the frontier shaped U.S. national identity, and who it left out.

On the nation’s relationship to George Washington’s legacy.

In the 1970s and ’80s, rank-and-file workers often took risks to attack a culture of corruption in the labor movement — including Mafia-controlled union locals.

Since the founding generation, there has been a rational consistent fear that the office of president is powerful to be constrained by democratic institutions.