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March 2024

Country Music and Cowboy Hats: A Brief, Absurdist History
Q: Are you sure Hank done it this way? A: Yes.
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American Fascism in the Federal Period [UNLOCKED]
Want historical parallels to the current rise of US authoritarianism? Me neither! — but the most obvious place to look is routinely ignored by those who…
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Joe Biden, Alexander Hamilton, and US Manufacturing
Is Biden-administration policy getting roped into the fading glory of the "Hamilton" craze?
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Happy to be Wrong
The SCOTUS Colorado case involved almost no history, bad or good.
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Pre-order the "much anticipated" HAMILTON SCHEME
Check out the blurbs and buy now!
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February 2024

Timothy Snyder and the Good History
We don’t do good history at BAD HISTORY. What we do at BAD HISTORY is bad history, a term that, as used here, can have all kinds of meanings, from…
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Is Beyoncé Spearheading a New "O Brother" Moment? [UNLOCKED]
Old-time banjo and modern country show up in the mainstream--naturally enough.
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"Griffin's Case" and Trump
Once more into the breach—and this will be brief (ha)—created by the case to be heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow regarding Colorado’s applying…
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Historians' Filing Amicus Briefs Seems (Mostly) Useless, and Maybe Worse
Maybe the problem with the Court isn't too little interest in the past but too much.
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January 2024

No, Greg Abbott's Texas "Standoff" Is Nothing Like the Whiskey Rebellion
Intellectually dishonest the rebels were not.
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I'm violently misquoted by "The Atlantic"
. . . but that's not the real problem.
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