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The most important civil rights achievement didn't come from Congress or the Court. It came from Harry Truman.

In the 19th century, Americans abandoned one source of dirty energy. Can they do it again?

The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.

In order to win universal health care, we have to understand what — and who — we're up against.

The blurred line between boyhood and manhood.

Presidents who win the electoral college but lose the popular vote never really recover.

Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.

Max Pine, 91, believes that one day “the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment.”

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.

Adams, whose 250th birthday is today, did not end slavery but his battle against the House "Gag Rule" helped pave the way.

It ended in disaster.

The complex combination of grievances that fueled the war had to do with taxes, class, and nationalism.

The left is turning its back on the Revolution. Here's why that's a mistake.

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.

A Canadian take on America's Revolutionary War.

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.

Abandoning free trade doesn't just hurt the economy. It threatens peace and stability across the globe.

The West cared very much about the Civil War.

They can if they study the tobacco playbook.

Doing so might kill the next big liberal idea.

What we can learn about the current moment from Congress' efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson.

The intended audience for the document could be found in the royal houses of France and Spain.

President Trump is by no means off the mark to call attention to Andrew Jackson as a precursor. The analogy, however, is not necessarily flattering.