Power

Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.

A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.

Wild talk, elite confusion, working-class cheers — Donald Trump’s divisive presidential campaign comes straight from the master’s playbook.

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

On a late nineteenth century debate: was America exceptional, or were Americans exceptional because they descended from England?

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

How nativism and racism shaped the national movement towards Prohibition.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

A brief history of Puerto Rico's status and relationship to the United States.

Donald Trump combines the instincts of a reality-TV star with the politics of a hundred-and-seventy-year-old nativist movement.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.

An analysis of the significance, unintended consequences, and implications ofthe 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years later.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

160 years ago, a similarly fractured GOP took months to settle on a speaker.

American bureaucracy's long and useful history.

The Manhattan Project scientists tried to advocate for nuclear de-escalation-instead, they unwittingly abetted the Vietnam War.

U.S. Census classifications through the centuries reflect broad changes in the way Americans understand race and ethnicity.

During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.

On the abolitionists, Reconstruction, and winning “freedom” from the Right.

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing—until a 32-year-old changed his mind.

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.