Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.

The relationship between two true believers in American exceptionalism.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

How the defeat of the 1890 Lodge bill presaged today’s age of ballot-driven backlash.

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

Using the congressional filibuster to prevent voting rights legislation isn't new. It has roots in the 19th century.

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

The word “Plymouth” may conjure up visions of Pilgrims in search of religious freedom, but that vision does not reflect reality.

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.

Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.