Remembering Sara Rosas Garcia
In 1939 Sara Rosas Garcia sued the state of California because her 19-year-old daughter Andrea…
Browsing: Commentary
Those Revolting Bureaucrats
Seemingly out of nowhere, it began as soon as President Trump was inaugurated. We’ve been…
How to Train an Obstetrician: Lessons from the Chicago Maternity Center
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands concerned about reproductive healthcare in the Trump…
Women Unite! Lessons from 1977 for 2017
Forty years ago, in a very different political climate, when the Republican and Democratic Parties…
When Antifascism Comes to America
Just as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks provoked intellectuals to revisit the question of…
Donald Trump and the Anti-New Deal Tradition
The phenomenon of Trumpism has represented a challenge for the United States but has been…
The Shelf Life of Trump
When I wrote “Setting the Table: Historians, Popular Food Writers, and Food History” for the Journal of…
Putting the 2016 Election into Historical Context
How can we understand the 2016 presidential election in a broad context of American history?…
From Memory to History? The Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary
If 50th anniversaries of war tend to be the last grand occasion in which the…
The Pitfalls of Writing the First Draft of History
As an American political historian, I’m occasionally asked to offer thoughts about the current state…