Donald Trump

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?

The history of Time's 'Person of the Year' exemplifies the problem that led to this year's winner.

Some police are becoming more vocal advocates of change. But the project of ending racial bias in policing is a decades-old one.

We might be better off if we knew a little more – or a little less – about her actual life.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

Does our approach to the First Amendment need to change in the wake of this summer's violence in Charlottesville?

How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.

Looking to the French Revolution and the writings of Tocqueville for insight into Trump’s America.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.

How Titus Andronicus drew on Civil War lore to frame contemporary social divides.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

The bullshit, the truth… and Trump.

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.

Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.

It's not as new as it seems.

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.