The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

Trump's affinity for tariffs hasn't wavered since the 1980s.

Introducing a new digital history project focused on the ways Americans voted from 1788 to 1825.

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

Many of the assumptions that guided America’s march to conflict in 2003 still dominate American foreign policy today.   

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.

Michael Washburn explains what we can glean from the failure of Tom Petty's 1985 concept album "Southern Accents."

Why did I never recognize all the important and valuable stories my mother told me as "history"?