Category Archive: Ronald Reagan

America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys… And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

I pledge to laugh At the Flag Of the United States of America And to the lies for […]

R.E.M.’s Lifes Rich Pageant and the First Shadows of the Reagan Dusk

We often tend to mistakenly think of the 1980s in ways that paint it as uniformly conforming to […]

Reagan’s 1966 Gubernatorial Campaign Turns 50: California, Conservatism, and Donald Trump

On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to right a flagging Barry Goldwater campaign, stepped up […]

Feminism, Evangelicalism, and Social Welfare in Ronald Reagan’s Military: Part II of Jennifer Mittelstadt and The Rise of the Military Welfare State

[Editor’s note: This is part II of ToM’s three part series on the AVF via Jennifer Mittelstadt’s recent […]

Reagan Country in the Era of Donald Trump

Fifty years ago this coming November, Ronald Reagan emerged victorious over incumbent Governor Pat Brown in the 1966 […]

A Guide to Recognizing Your GOP Candidates

We at ToM know how hard it has been to keep up with the GOP nomination race, especially […]

The Reagan Revolution Part II: The Thinnest of Hip Hop Primers on Rap’s Rejection of Ronald Reagan, 1980 – 2013

  Over the last twenty or thirty years, historians have tried to situate the United States in a […]

The Reagan Revolution Part I: Popular Music, Ronald Reagan, and Protest: Punk, Hardcore, and Post Punk, a Primer, 1980-2010

Editor’s note: This week we kick off a series of posts on punk in the 1980s and 1990s […]