Donald Trump

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

In a recent speech, Trump looks to America's past for answers. However, the history he recounts is glaringly limited.

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.

Without justice for all, none of us are free.

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

Calling QAnon a "cult" or "religion" hides how its practices are born of deeply American social and political traditions.

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

On the passage and enforcement of laws to exclude or deport immigrants for their beliefs, and the people who challenged those laws.

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

Eric Foner sees parallels with our own time but warns that yesterday’s solution would be a disaster.

Here’s how we came to label the coded language.

Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled.

Republicans are replacing the public good with a far narrower definition of it.

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.

Washington supported a much more limited conception of executive privilege.