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Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results.

Biden’s withdrawal won’t solve all of Democrats’ problems — but it gives them a chance.

It’s difficult to see how these profound antipathies and fears will dissipate soon through any normal political processes.

Until the late 1960s, the Democratic Party could have simply anointed a replacement for President Biden. Now it's not so easy.

James Shapiro's book "The Playbook" is a timely reminder both of the power of theater and of the vehement antipathy it can generate.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings.

But they also find key differences.

The question should not be if settler colonialism factored into the history of the Civil War but how and to what extent.

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

The failed assassination of Donald Trump might not have any lasting effect on the election or politics in general.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

Ironically, Chevron deference — which the conservative Supreme Court scrapped last month — began as a conservative legal tool.

The one-room schoolhouse that was one of the birthplaces of the GOP.

During the 1984 campaign, the 73-year-old president meandered his way through his face-off against Walter Mondale, prompting questions about his mental acuity.

Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

What was in the water circa 1992?

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

The West Florida revolt in the Age of Revolutions.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

It was a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion.

I would know.

On the profound impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

As Democrats debate whether Joe Biden should stay in the race against Trump, LBJ’s often misunderstood example looms.

The colonial rebellion we celebrate every July 4th doesn’t fit the definition.

On Nathanael Greene’s inauspicious start.

The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

Digital archive and interactive map that tells the story of U.S. government institutions through the lives and work of federal employees.