historiography

The invasion of Iraq is the most important foreign policy decision by a U.S. president in the 21st century, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

The genocide of Native Americans was nowhere more methodically savage than in California. A new state initiative seeks to reckon with this history.

David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.

It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.

Professor Blackhawk’s new volume attempts to put Native peoples’ stories at the center of the history of the United States.

Exploring recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres.

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.

Does marijuana prohibition have racist origins? Where did ideas of “reefer madness” come from? This project looks to the historical record for answers.

Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.

We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.

In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.

Enslaved women’s experiences with war must be extended to include the everyday warfare of slavery.