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  • SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
    10/31/2020

    Want to See Black Women Making History? Look to Congress

    by Ashley D. Farmer

    The success of "The Squad" in changing the image of Congressional leadership reflects the legacy of women like Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman elected to the Texas state senate on the way to a seat in Congress. 

  • SOURCE: Census Stories
    9/1/2020

    The Harvard Mimeograph

    by Dan Bouk

    The story of the 1920 census shows how difficult it can be to disentangle the methodology of the Census from the political impact of the results. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    7/30/2020

    The Last Days of the Tech Emperors?

    by Margaret O'Mara

    The mood of Congressional questioning of tech executives recalled the traffic safety debates of the mid-1960s that helped catalyze significantly more regulation for the auto industry.

  • SOURCE: Dissent
    7/20/2020

    Remembering John Lewis

    by Nicolaus Mills

    How long Lewis expected America to take before it woke up he did not say, but as he showed both in the 1960s and in a political career as a Georgia Congressman that began in 1987 and lasted until his death, Lewis did not tire when change did not go as he wanted.

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    7/18/2020

    The World John Lewis Helped Create

    Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”

  • SOURCE: Washington Monthly
    6/22/2020

    Why Can’t Republicans Elect Women?

    The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    3/25/2020

    A Troublemaker With a Gavel

    by Karen Tumulty

    Perhaps, before too long, the troublemaker with a gavel will finally get her wish—to no longer hear herself introduced as the most powerful woman in American history.

  • SOURCE: Muster
    3/17/2020

    Democracy: How 1860 Connects to 2020

    by Daniel W. Crofts

    In the years before the Civil War, just as today, minority rule was the norm. White Southerners dominated the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party dominated the federal government.

  • SOURCE: The Conversation
    2/4/20

    100 years ago, Congress threw out results of the census

    by Walter Reynolds Farley

    Census 2020 is far from the first census to set off bitter political fights. One hundred years ago, results from Census 1920 initiated a decadelong struggle about how to allocate a state’s seats in Congress. 

  • 12/22/19

    Pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act

    by Martin Halpern

    If unions and their allies win passage of this legislation, they may begin to shift the country away from the glaring inequality that is at the core of the country’s discontent.