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What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan by John Nichols Reagan was a liberal Democrat who decried wrongheaded Republicans before he became the conservative hero of wrongheaded Republicans.

Fear of a foreign-born president made sense in 1787 – not today by Jonathan Zimmerman Why do you have to be a natural-born citizen in order to lead the country?

So Hillary believes in the discredited Southern Lost Cause theory? Ridiculous. by Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle Her remark that had Lincoln lived the horrors of post-war Reconstruction might have been mitigated doesn't make her an enemy of Reconstruction.

Five myths about Reconstruction by James W. Loewen The United States is entering the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction, that period after the Civil War when African Americans briefly enjoyed full civil and political rights. Here are five common fallacies that Americans still tell themselves about this formative period.

Reagan as History by Kiron K. Skinner Can any one biography do justice to the life and accomplishments of America’s fortieth President?

Tahrir 5 Years Later by Juan Cole The Hurdles to Democratization & Arab Youth Revolts

The Jew Who Silenced America’s Earliest Anti-Semites by Gil Troy Americans besieged by today’s hateful rhetoric would be wise to look up Jacob Henry, whose seminal defense of his own faith—and others’—was once memorized by schoolchildren everywhere.

America May Have Forgotten Schwarzenegger 2003, but Donald Trump 2016 Has Not by Kaleb Horton Though we’ve largely disregarded that time the nation’s most populous state elected a former action hero to its governor’s mansion, The Donald’s campaign for the White House is giving us a refresher.

The secular front in the US by John Fea For evangelicals, the secular progressive vision of the world is a threat to the institutions that they hold dear.

Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg The founders did restrict the presidency to natural-born citizens. Ted Cruz's status is deeply complicated.