Donald Trump

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

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

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?

The long history of athletes taking a stand for racial justice.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?

Our concept of national security is so broad it can encompass virtually anything.

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

George Washington knew the perils of letting scandals linger.