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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.
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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.
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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.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7/21/2020
‘In a Perfectly Just Republic,’ Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President
by Pamela S. Nadell
A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Bella Savitzky Abzug stood on the front lines protesting injustices that still roil this nation.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
7/22/2020
House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues From U.S. Capitol
The bipartisan vote to banish the statues from display was the latest step in a nationwide push to remove historical symbols of racism and oppression from public places.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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4/19/2020
An Interview with Fergus Bordewich, Author of “Congress at War”
by James Thornton Harris
My work on Congress during the Compromise of 1850 showed me how much wonderful untapped and dramatic material there was to be found in the battles fought on the floor of Congress.
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SOURCE: National Catholic Reporter
4/6/2020
Time For The Dems To Earn The Hatred Of The Wealthy And Connected
Democrats might want to make copies of the president's signing statement and mail it to all Americans, highlighting the passages where the president insists there will be no oversight.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/2/2020
From Afar, Congress Moves to Oversee Trump Coronavirus Response
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would move to form a special committee to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response, including how more than $2 trillion in federal relief money is being spent.
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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.
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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.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/9/20
Who’s Really Shredding Standards on Capitol Hill?
by Joanne Freeman
Naming the alleged whistle-blower is much worse than tearing up a speech.
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SOURCE: The Hill
2/7/20
House to vote this week on bill to create women's history museum
The bill is poised to pass easily with bipartisan support.
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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.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/29/20
The Senate has a chance to take back power Congress gave up long ago
by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes
Calling witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial would revive the habit of investigating the executive branch.
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12/22/19
Impeachment Wounded the Republic
by Christopher Binetti
This scenario is exactly opposite to Gracchus in Rome, but the result will be the same.
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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.
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12/29/19
Why Holocaust Education Is So Important Today
by Claudia Moscovici
The Never Again Education Act is an effort by a bipartisan group of US legislators in both the House and the Senate to promote Holocaust education.
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