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Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson
Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried
Cover of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd
Patriot or Pragmatist?
Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)
No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro
This detail from an illustration in a 1911 Industrial Workers of the World publication depicts a class of workers struggling to hold up finely dressed elites while they drink and dine.
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
Spraying Pesticides - NARA 1940
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections
Paul Ryan, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ryan’s Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008
Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible
1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Is Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery
With running mate Paul Ryan in Norfolk, Virginia, during the vice presidential selection announcement on August 11, 2012
Vice Presidential Nominees Must Be Plausible As President
Rick Santorum at prayer, 2012
Rick Santorum and Fundamentalist Catholicism
Santorum speaking in Des Moines, Iowa in 2011
Rick Santorum Misunderstands Both Kennedy and Religious Pluralism
Cover of Space Travel, November 1958
Gingrich and Romney: Right and Wrong on Space Travel
The political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander.
Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.
Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt
Hundreds of people who lost jobs when freezing weather hit California in January 2007 line up to register for the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment
close-up of an Eisenhower US coin
“In God We Trust” or “E Pluribus Unum”? The American Founders Preferred the Latter Motto
"The Magnet Citizenship" March 1917 cartoon by Henry Mayer - Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)
U.S. Citizenship Is Based on Principles, Not Heritage
Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.
Gays, Nazis, and the GOP
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.
Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater
100 and 10 US dollars banknotes.
Inflation — Fighting the Last War
Perry speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
Governor Perry’s Vice-Presidential Mistake
War News from Mexico (1848).
“Hostilities” and War Powers: Let’s Choose the Constitution
The Prairie Dog is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804.
Not American Enough? This Political Slur Has a Long History
Fox News commentator and Tea Party favorite Glenn Beck addresses supporters at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010.
American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style