American History

“Light at the End of the Tunnel”? The Vietnam War, the Credibility Gap, and the COVID-19 Crisis

by Simon Toner on May 15, 2020

Wartime analogies abound in the fight against COVID-19. In the United States, the Surgeon General warned that the nation faced a “Pearl Harbor moment” and Donald Trump, who declared himself a “wartime president”, has invoked

“Confederate Heritage Month” and the Memory of the American Civil War

by Rob Thompson on April 27, 2020

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The history of the American Civil War is very much about memory and, in recent years, the construction and contestation

Militarism, Immigrants, and Modern America

by Justin Olmstead on November 11, 2017

As the world commemorates the centenary of the First World War and the US begins to grudgingly do the same

The Mugwumps and the Revolt against Politics as Usual

by Andrew Heath on April 27, 2017

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Many names have been hurled at Jeremy Corbyn during his short reign as Labour leader. As playground insults go, though,

What history can’t tell us about the future: Non-predictions for a Trumpy world

by Martin Brown on January 20, 2017

Europe faces a clear and present danger. NATO and the Russian Federation are facing off in the eastern Baltic. Rival

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Whose ‘Civic Army’? Ferguson, Policing, and Early American Democracy

by Charlie Thompson on November 26, 2014

The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the ‘night of rage’ in Ferguson, Missouri. Tragedies like Michael Brown’s in Missouri and Trayvon Martin’s

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