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Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.

When the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ran for president, he wasn’t seeking further glory but a policy change in religious liberty.

In the Texas legislature, Republicans seemed willing to acknowledge systemic racism but resistant to the idea of talking about it with children.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.

Though the cruelties of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy were unique, they were part of an American tradition of taking children from parents.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.

Leadership battles tell us a lot about where a party is headed.

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?