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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.

Of the presidential elections in early America, few have stressed the themes of sex and gender so spicily as the heated contest of 1856.

How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.

Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.

When residents of the U.S. came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.

An introduction to the currents of American culture that led to "Trumpism.'

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.