Chapter 1 of Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga was a box office failure, but the cowboy masculinity it portrays helps to explain Trump’s victory.
The White Man’s World of the Wild West Survives
Fascism or Democracy: The Work Behind, the Work Ahead
If America’s greatness is its love of freedom, who held the firehoses in Birmingham? Who wielded clubs on Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Beyond Grievance Masculinity: Tim Walz and White Male Joy
Why is Tim Walz getting so much attention in electoral coverage? @DrLisaCorrigan explains Walz's political and affective appeals and discusses the gender/race dynamics of his pick as VP.
Hulkamania Runs Wild at the 2024 Republican National Convention
On July 18, 2024, Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican Party’s nomination as its candidate for president. While there was no shortage of unconventional speeches at the Republican National Convention (RNC) held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one speech stuck out. Merely an hour before Trump capped off his four-day coronation, Hulk Hogan, the former star of... Continue Reading →
Biden v. Trump: Parallels with the Past?
Disaffected Americans living in today’s era of wealth inequality may turn to someone new as they did in the past if both Biden and Trump are nominated by their respective conventions this summer, as presumed.
Reinterpreting James Monroe’s Highland
We are always learning new things about the past, and that's good. As we learn more, we are also obligated to share these new discoveries to our public. That is currently what we are doing at James Monroe's Highland: telling new, more truthful stories about a place with a complicated historical and institutional history.
What Does Decolonizing Russian History Mean?: Moving from “Colonization but” to “Colonization and” Frameworks
Many Russian historians have advanced a “colonization but” argument—Russia history is a history of colonization but not the same kind of colonization that the UK, France, and others undertook. The task is to move to a “colonization and” stance. Yes, it was colonization, and we must write histories that confront power with truth.
“Our war of independence”: President Zelensky’s Speech to Congress and the Memory of the American Revolutionary War
With well-chosen references to and evocations of the memory of the American Revolutionary War, President Zelensky connected the American and Ukrainian struggles for independence.
Strikers, Octopi, and Visible Hands: The Railroad and American Capitalism
In popular culture and American historiography, the railroad corporation has long been a site where Americans have grappled with larger questions of political economy.
Every flute its Lizzo, Every Lizzo her flute.
What do the reactions to Lizzo's September 2022 visit to the National Archive say about access to public services? We have work to do if we want to keep saying libraries are welcoming spaces, and a radical librarian from the 1930s gives us a place to start.
Clio and the Contemporary 