Andrew Jackson

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

The U.S. faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings — a clear break from the cooperative system the founders established.

Because Martin Van Buren was an unsuccessful president, his more significant contributions to the nation’s political life have also been obscured.

Historians may never speak of an “Age of Adams” to rival Andrew Jackson, but Randall Woods’s new biography reveals the sixth president’s greatness.

American expansionism goes beyond territory.

The West Florida revolt in the Age of Revolutions.

Alan Taylor’s case for thinking of it as a continental conflict.

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.

The troubled history of the famous poinsettia plant.

For generations, depictions of Native Americans have reduced them to either aggressors or victims. But at many public history sites, that is starting to change.

A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.

A new book links the rise of American prisons to the expansion of American power around the globe.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.