How America's national narratives have shaped the US

10/05/2025 12 min
How America's national narratives have shaped the US

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In the restoration of Donald Trump, many historians see echoes of ugly chapters in the American story. The 1830s, and the presidency of Andrew Jackson,  a Democrat who rode roughshod over Congress and the Supreme Court and the 1930s, which saw a resurgence of the American far right. Ahead of her talk at Sydney's UTS Vice-Chancellor's Democracy Forum, renowned historian Sarah Churchwell unpacks the national narratives that have shaped the U.S.