Matthew Karp is an associate professor of history at Princeton, specializing in the politics of the Civil War era. During this primary season, he has…
I look forward to protests of striving towards the resilient new, rather than ones that seem driven by their bringing of the nightmarish past into the nightmarish present, amplifying the grating power of both to the point of near insurmountability. If the past is not past, when can we move past it?
The United States is experiencing a crisis of historical memory. The rise of Donald Trump has been paralleled by a greater collective awareness of ideological,…