Andrew Jackson

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

The problems of presidential gigantism can’t be solved by finding the right giant—the office is dying from its own growth.

A new exhibition makes a powerful statement about the oversights of American history and America’s art history.

How a demagogue resembles a typhoon, and why it matters to the future of the republic.

The phrase "trail of tears" resonates in American conversation because the country is still coming to terms with what happened and what it means.

On 400 years of tribalism, genocide, expulsion, and imprisonment.

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

Black athletes didn’t “politicize” American sports. They’ve been a battleground from the very beginning.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.

Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson are not the only similarities between the two administrations.

Presidents who win the electoral college but lose the popular vote never really recover.

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.

New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.

The history of American expansion can be traced through the severed body parts left in its wake.

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.