Andrew Jackson

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science, and here’s why.

The bonfire was a public spectacle for Black people, as well as any white dissenters. It was a calculated warning.

A new work of history finds the best antidote to today’s authoritarian politics in Daniel Webster’s 19th-century civic nationalism.

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

Thanks to an 1835 treaty, they’re pushing Democrats to approve a nonvoting delegate.

Aaron Burr was the highest-ranking official to stand trial for treason, which some people have invoked now amid probes into ex-president Donald Trump.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

Ed Ayers travels back to his childhood stomping grounds in search of traces of the dispossession that took place there generations earlier.

A new book chronicles the life of the 19th century political giant of Salmon Chase.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

Why our politics are growing ever more extreme — and democracy itself is under siege.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

Dueling was a dangerous, ritualized response to a real (or perceived) slight. It may also have been a means of proving one's social and economic capital.

Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

Our country's legal history renders the teen's case familiar if not inevitable.

John C. Calhoun knew what a strong federal government might do.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.