Donald Trump

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.

A microsyllabus on the history of the U.S.-Mexico border, refugees, and deportation.

William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight.

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.

If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.

Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviors who could combat the Nazi threat.

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

It lets us avoid harder questions about our culture.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

Shared enemies and ideology matter more than Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.

President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.