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In settling a rivalry between Maryland and Virginia and preventing individual states from getting into bed with France and Spain, maybe the Articles weren't a failure after all.

The Age of Revolution, known mainly as the period between the American Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848, continued all the way to 1865.

31-year-old Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich took a stand against the sale of his city’s publicly owned electric utility. And he almost paid for it with his life.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

Emma Goldman’s opposition to the American government poses an interesting question for our modern democracy: is there room for radical dissent?

Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.

A new book examines how the US government funded the growth of — and delegated governance to — the nonprofit sector.

These Progressive Era Republicans wanted to run the Federal government like a business.

As conservative groups give up on public schools, the fight today is about looting public resources.

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.

And why it’s time to take it back.

Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.

Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.

The white supremacist conspiracy theory that has inspired horrific violence in the past five years dates back to Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo.

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

A new book chronicles the life of the 19th century political giant of Salmon Chase.

According to experts who monitor the radical right, the white supremacist ideology that police say drove the Buffalo gunman has begun moving into the mainstream.

A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing. 

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.

Historian Barbara J. Fields explains why you can't understand what happened in 1619 without understanding what happened in 1607.

There is little mention of abortion in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

In the years before Barack Obama was elected, many groups on the extreme right kept a relatively low profile. With the election of a Black president, that changed.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

Why our politics are growing ever more extreme — and democracy itself is under siege.

Neo-Nazi propaganda, military deployment and the F.B.I. raid in Waco, Texas, radicalized Timothy McVeigh and led to the Oklahoma City attack.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.

The Department of Homeland Security was supposed to rally nearly two dozen agencies together in a streamlined approach to protecting the country. So what the hell happened?