Donald Trump

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

Three years later, amid another national election, the American public is still slow to understand the enormity of January 6, 2021.

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.

Video testimony and evidence presented by the House Select Committee to recommend criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.

Trump’s shredding of paper in the White House was far more widespread and indiscriminate than previously known.

The verdict was unanimous.

But it’s one historians know all too well.

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.

The real challenge is not simply to replace Trump, but to fix a system that produces, promotes, and protects the toxicity that defines his presidency.

A combination of historical surpluses—the afterlives of slavery, of the deranged presidency—has raised the stakes in the present struggle.

Over 1000 historians have signed this statement condemning President Trump's actions.

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism. Still, we are witnessing a story that's unlikely to have a happy ending.

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

Putting Trump's approval rating in historical context.

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.