Henry Adams

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.

Henry Adams's classic autobiography speaks to concerns of privilege, failure, and progress in his rapidly changing world.

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 

The paths the country took out of that earlier crisis offer valuable lessons for what we should do now, and what we should fear.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

"The American Scene" is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

His presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.

Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.