Kevin M. Kruse

The relatively unknown Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been elevated to the powerful position of Speaker of the House.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

The trends that brought us Howard Schultz (and Donald Trump) started in the 1970s.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

A conservative pundit questioned the prevalence of Dixiecrats switching to the GOP. Historian Kevin Kruse accepted the challenge.

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and their White House church services.