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Many compare the rise of "Trumpism" to that of 1930s Fascism. More worthwhile might be an examination of antifascist resistance.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.

Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

South Carolina’s Ben Tillman and the 2016 presidential election.

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

Two historians shed light on the atrocities of Native American enslavement and genocide.

Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?

The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.

Looking to history for an analogue to Trump’s victory does a disservice to the present and the past.

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.

How America's persistent preference for brash boys over "sivilizing" women fueled the candidacy of Donald Trump.

In the 1920s, women's love of driving in auto-obsessed Los Angeles created traffic jams and a battle over women’s rightful place.

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.

The outrage and press coverage was nothing compared with that surrounding Hillary Clinton's emails.

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

The most important third party in the history of American politics is one you may never have heard of before.

As first lady, Clinton rejected the ways of Washington and paid a price.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.

The story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and was denied.

Choosing a running mate used to be more about campaigning than governing. But after Richard Nixon’s ruinous relationship with Spiro Agnew, the job has changed.

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.