Donald Trump

Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation.

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.

When creating ethical immigration policy, it is important to consider the history of U.S. relations with countries like Honduras.

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.

Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.

What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present.

Christine Blasey Ford, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, and battles over America's history.

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.

Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.

A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.

Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.

Using the court system to stymie a president has backfired before.

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?