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The Lessons of a School Shooting—in 1853 by Saul Cornell How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.

America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude by Ariel Ron and Dael Norwood It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.

Gun-control advocates believe their activism will mirror the fight for gay marriage. They’re wrong. by James Kirchick The better comparison is Prohibition — and we all know how that turned out.

How evangelical support of Trump helped to bring pornography into the mainstream by John Fea The court evangelicals do not condone Trump’s behavior. But neither do they say they think that his indiscretions are in any way harmful to his presidency.

How Early Warnings About the Effect of Television on American Politics Came True by David Kaiser In 1958, Edward R. Murrow, the great newsman, warned that television threatened the nation’s survival because it was using its power to distract the citizenry from painful realities.

The Iraq War and the Inevitability of Ignorance by James Fallows The U.S. is destined to keep overlearning the lessons of the last conflict.

The Subversive Socialist Journalism of I.F. Stone by Gil Troy Stone believed that radicals should be iconoclasts—rejecting truisms, left and right.

What Was the Vietnam War About? by Christian G. Appy How we name and define this most controversial of American wars is not a narrow scholarly exercise, but profoundly shapes public memory of its meaning and ongoing significance to American national identity and foreign policy.

Why Lyndon Johnson Dropped Out by Fredrik Logevall He had known for years that the Vietnam War would destroy him. In March 1968, it did.

A Modest Plea for Patriotic History by Eliot A. Cohen If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.

America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again? by Jason Sokol The King and Kennedy assassinations spurred the passage of the Gun Control Act.