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Presidential historian. NYT bestselling author. Senior fellow @newamerica. American history columnist @nytbr. AlexisCoe.1776 on signal.
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The Scandal and the Scale

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By Alexis Coe
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I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory. It took me a moment to realize I was reading a postmortem, written while the body was still warm. The source of Greenidge’s downfall, The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family, had only recently been treated as a triumph.
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July 4th gives us the language. The 9th gives us the stakes.

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By Alexis Coe
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On Saturday, the heat wave delivered an unexpectedly immersive America 250 finale: Founding-era conditions, two bars of service, one melting historian—and, above all, gratitude for the moments that served as balm. History is full of them. We treat July 4, 1776, as a kind of instantaneous birth. The founders sign the Declaration. The Liberty Bell rings. A nation appears.
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Contradictions Included: Notes from the Greenbrier (Part IV)

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By Alexis Coe
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Coverage is retroactive. Subscribe below or Venmo me directly, as the founders intended. S/o to the local Walmart and my newest personality trait: refusing to gate check luggage This is a part of a series. The first installment ran on June 16, 2026. The intro remains relatively unaltered but what follows is new.
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