About William Hogeland
It’s BAD HISTORY! where the strangely reassuring meets the deeply unsettling. After the terrorist attacks of 2001, I began digging into an American past more conflicted—and conflicted about more things—than we often want to know. Amid current political crises, I need that kind of perspective more than ever.
In this newsletter, I’ll explore the history I’ve found and keep finding, in hopes of helping both you and me put the turmoil we’re going through in the context of what the country’s gone through before. Things can get hair-raising, but also entertaining (otherwise, I wouldn’t do it).