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Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.

Trump has called Andrew Jackson a "military hero and genius and a beloved president."

George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Teddy used nearly 10 times as many executive orders as his predecessor. The repercussions are still felt today.

Populism stretches through the American experience.

Writers like Rick Perlstein miss the ways in which Trump’s rise is a story of discontinuity.

Remembering the switchboard operator who listened in on Cohn’s calls with Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlo Gambino, and Trump.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

The Trump Administration can - and should - learn from that moment.

In 1983, the U.S. simulated a nuclear war with Russia—and narrowly avoided starting a real one. We might not be so lucky next time.

We need a radical solution to avert the disintegration of our political system.

Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?

The Hatch Act was crafted in response to New Deal-era political maneuvering.

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

The government saw Red when looking at William Gropper's painting of the United States.

President Trump’s criticisms of government workers have something in common with Joe McCarthy’s.

The new administration plans to bring back a committee that has tried over the years to guide policy—with mixed results.

Anne Gorsuch Burford — the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.

The debate about the nature of Woodrow Wilson's health is intertwined with questions about his self-righteous character.

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.

One of the very reasons the framers wanted the president to take a salary, was to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

Abortion was first criminalized in the mid 1900s amidst concerns that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.