Power

During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures.

History not only explains how the industrial Midwest became Trump country, but also how the area's politics may shift again.

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

The newly empowered federal state created during Reconstruction could restrict immigration much more comprehensively than any state—as Chinese laborers soon discovered.

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.

In Lincoln’s view the West represented a space for opportunity, especially for the citizen-soldiers returning to their prewar pursuits.

Three US presidents from the South’s borders—Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson—worked against Southern politicians to support civil and voting rights.

A conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. apology to the Hawaiian people.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

A whistle-stop train tour, and some plain speaking spur Harry Truman's come from behind win in 1948 over Thomas Dewey.

Even before the United States regulated migration, states did. Here’s why.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

A very old concept remains a key part of navigating the United States' broken immigration system.

The dumping of tons of tea in protest set the stage for the American Revolution and was a window on the culture and attitudes of the time.

What role does age play in determining the status of equals?

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.

Immigration has been a defining issue in a campaign before, and the consequences transformed the Democratic Party.

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t the first time the Republican Party was split by an outsider declaring war on the establishment elite.

A radical third party had a new idea for selecting a presidential candidate, and it’s still in use today.

In 1974, after years of grinding war in Vietnam had exhausted most of the antiwar movement, Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda came up with a new strategy.

Congress’s periodic battles over the Farm Bill often pass unnoticed, but the document effectively determines what, how, and how much we eat.

Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis.

The Great War forced the US to create a modern spying and analysis apparatus.

A brief history of the license plate.

A measure almost made the Republican Party’s 2024 Texas primary ballot to measure whether party members would support secession from the United States.

But it didn’t work out for their parties.

On how Latino political power has changed Los Angeles.