These are one-page, printable handouts that summarize important historical events, movements, crises, and more that form the backdrop for our current political situation.
- Ellen Schrecker, “McCarthyism, 1947-1960“
- Jeremy Kuzmarov, “The U.S. War on Drugs“
- Linda Gordon, “The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s“
- Robert Oppenheim, “North Korea and Nuclear Weapons“
- Geoff Eley, “Is Trump a Fascist?“
- Felice Batlan, “Building a Regime of Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1840-1945“
- Margaret Power, “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in the Caribbean”
- Van Gosse, “Why The United States Is Not A True Democracy, Part One“
- Kevin A. Young, “Our Debt to Central American Refugees” also available as a text version with hyperlinks
- Van Gosse, “Why the United States Is Not a True Democracy, Part Two”