Donald Trump

Mamdani’s NYC mayoral rise revives debates over Democratic fusionism, echoing 1890s Populist struggles with establishment power.

Lionel Trilling defends humanism amid crisis culture, warning that obsessing over evil can erode the self and our capacity for moral and creative agency.

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform is back on display at West Point's library.

Louis Ludlow’s war referendum amendment was the high-water mark of American antiwar populism.

A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.

As Bruce Springsteen’s "Born to Run" turns 50, its most underrated track deserves some love.

Both presidents have records as avid deregulators of environmental rules for industry, but Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on science go in a different direction.

Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.

DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.

Churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.

“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.

The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.

A largely forgotten campaign of harassment and persecution from the 1950s that still echoes today.

Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.