Donald Trump

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place.

McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.

There is, and always has been, a vanishingly thin line between charismatic democratic rulers and charismatic authoritarians.

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

Who counts determines whose interests are represented in government.

Trump spends so much time defending statues not because he cares about history, but precisely because he doesn’t

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.

They’re good for kickstarting political debate but analogies with the past are often ahistorical and should be treated with care.

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

Fighting for the soul of American space policy.

Worried that the presidential power to undo convictions can be taken too far? Look no further than Lincoln’s successor.

In times that feel “unprecedented,” it is all the more important to use history as a way to understand the present and chart a path to the future.

Is being "political" the central force in our identities?

Why removing the names of Confederates from military bases matters.

Private bunkers and the people who build them.

The parallels between the summer of '32 and what is happening now are striking.

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”