Donald Trump

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.

The promise and perils of left populism.

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

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.