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Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

Tenure isn't "just" about academic freedom or free speech, it also about labor, and more - knowing the history helps understand the battles and challenges of the present🗃️ @TIME #madebyhistory time.com/7320703/acad...

Hunter M. Hampton writes about his new book, GRIDIRON GOSPEL: #Faith & #CollegeFootball in 20th Century America (go.illinois.edu/f25hampton), for @TIME #MadeByHistory
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The Legacy of Robert La Follette's Progressive Vision Robert La Follette saw politics as a never-ending struggle for democracy and fairness and preached perseverance.

Timely insights & continued relevance: progressivism, reform struggles, the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, & political philosophy. On the Legacy of Fighting' Bob LaFollette's Progressive Vision by Nancy Unger #madebyhistory TIME Magazine @shgape.bsky.social 🗃️ time.com/7293419/robe...

Appeasing Putin Won't Work The parallels to 1938 are unavoidable.

Seems like the right time to re-up this piece I wrote for #TIME #MadeByHistory, as it seems that Trump & his craven lackeys are preparing for a Munich 1938-style conference with Putin. I hope Zelensky gets an assist from our European allies to avoid the fate of Edvard Beneš. time.com/6836620/puti...

The History That Exposes the Flaw in Trump's Tariff Logic Tariff fights can backfire, because the government can't easily shape the preferences of American consumers.

As we're entering another Gilded Age, it's a good reminder to look at the first one for models of resistance. Here is my piece for @time-magazine.bsky.social #MadeByHistory on how Mrs. Astor won the 1890 tariff wars. Check it out, and think who could be today's Mr. Astor?🗃️
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Perspective | The value of looking forward as we mark America’s next big birthday Even as we mark seminal anniversaries of the American Revolution by looking back, we’ve also used the moment to dream about the future.

Because of that work, I've often been asked to weigh in on the upcoming 250th. I'm worked with several partner orgs, helping them think about how to approach planning. I've also written about this for the @washingtonpost.com #MadeByHistory
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A few years ago, I wrote a #madebyhistory essay for the @washingtonpost.com that sought to explain the seeming paradox of the Trumpist celebration of "law and order" alongside law breaking.
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History Explains the Racial Wealth Gap Ronald Reagan's economic policies exacerbated the racial wealth gap— and they've guided all his successors.

Historian Calvin Schermerhorn on how Reagan’s Policies Continue to Exacerbate the Racial Wealth Gap time.com/6334291/raci... #MadeByHistory @Time

.@Miller_Center's Will Hitchcock on myth of Ike's nuclear threat in the Korean War
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