Power

James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why?

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.

In 1840, William Henry Harrison was mocked for his presidential run at age 67 — 15 years younger than President Biden would be at the start of a second term.

The G.I. Bill created a prosperous middle class that was altogether too white.

Barely-disguised hostilities sometimes belied the rebels’ declared identity as the United States of America.

History shows that activists can win statewide fights—but that the strategy might be unsustainable long-term.

The former pro wrestler says his surprise election as Minnesota governor paved the way for Donald Trump. Now he looks back “shamefully” on their past ties.

During the New Deal, the U.S. knew that economic recovery depended upon housing.

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

What actually happened in one of the most disruptive episodes of the supposed Watergate scandal?

Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.

The right has had qualms about universities since the 1930s.

Blaming corrupt individuals rather than federal Indian policy for the violence and exploitation perpetrated against the Osage Nation misses the mark.

Scholars and pundits are suddenly interested in the section disqualifying insurrectionists from offices. But text and history don't offer clear answers.

Who is counted by the census, how, and for what purpose, has changed a lot since 1790.

In her new book, ‘Prequel,’ she looks at a past moment of crisis that might help us understand both the threats we face today and how we can endure them.

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

J. Edgar Hoover’s ascent within the FBI reveals the birth of an unprecedented surveillance apparatus that would survey US citizens for decades to come.

The actual history of New Deal policies provides little evidence that it was a rollicking success.

The Spiro Agnew Edition.

More than an artful calligrapher, John Hancock forswore the austerity of his fellow Bostonians, and their extremism.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

Nationalism, not postmodernism, is the fount of today's politics of recognition.

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

The Puritans outlawed Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan" because it was critical of the society they were building in colonial New England.

How Eugene V. Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality.

There were more government shutdowns under Ronald Reagan than under every president since, combined. But some were as short as a few hours.

In “The Court at War,” Cliff Sloan examines the close relationship between FDR and the high court during World War II.