David Waldstreicher

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.

The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.