Power

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.

A history of U.S. health care debates.

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.

It was 1921, and it changed the character of the United States for decades.

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.

An ancient concept, asylum has become just another political tool in the hands of our government.

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.

Weariness of strong government is a key American tradition. But equally important is the revolutionary idea that national governance should come from the states.

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.

In addition to COVID-19, another pandemic is preying upon the human spirit, nourished by a vulgar bigotry that has gone viral.

Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.

If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

People comparing covid-19 and AIDS may obscure more than they clarify.

It was a lesson they'd learned from experience.

Just like today, brass and bureaucrats ignored warnings, and sent troops overseas despite the consequences.

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.

History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.

Has Trump plunged America into another Great Depression?

Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

A review of "Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle," by Jonathan Horn.

Just like in wartime, compulsion is a must.

This is not the first time that democratic governance appeared to be under assault.

In the past two centuries, the evolution of the U.S. Census has tracked the country’s social tensions and reflected its political controversies.

Failing upward with Oliver North.

Anti-slavery protest during the Missouri statehood debate.

A review of "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World."

Having a single candidate by the time of the convention has been a key stepping stone for a party’s victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.