Outside the Beltway

This could be a issue for common ground… if both sides are prepared to give a little

Autocracy in America.

Who did Nazi this coming?

A Republican columnist is angry that Trump, not Harris, is being seen as the incumbent.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

History rhymes in uncanny ways

And you might ask yourself: “how did we get here?”

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

A scholarly treatise argues it is not.

Some historical context.

Generations of young Americans weren’t alive or have no real memory of the event.

A tale from the DeSantis’ Woke Wars.

An appropriate step.

Inter-generational power is a thing.

Those who refuse to learn about the past often perpetuate its mistakes.

On Florida’s updated standards regarding slavery.

Absolutely something!

A quick follow-up to a previous post.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

In a world of fixed positions, is debating in good faith really worth it?

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

That time the Nazis made a movie about the Titanic.

A new milestone in human history.

Possibly the last child of an American enslaved person has died.

It goes deeper than base names.

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

Fascism is less about real politics, which is what makes it terrifying.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

Congressman Steve King has some rather unique views about human history.

Fifty years ago today, we were reminded of what humanity can accomplish if we put our minds to it. It seems like we’ve forgotten that over the past half-century.

Last night New York City experienced what turned out to be a short-lived blackout mostly limited to Manhattan’s West Side, but it brought back memories of much bigger events.

Amusing results, and a history lesson, in a new poll

Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

One of the pioneers of the Internet warns that we’re in danger of losing entire generations’ worth of history because of digitization.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

After two and a half decades, the images of June 4, 1989 resonate with many, unless you happen to live in China.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

Those who argue that tariff increases, and not slavery, were the key reason for secession have some basic problems with the historical sequence.