Eric Foner

Myths to explain American history and chart a path to the future once helped to bind the country together. Today, they are absorbed into the culture wars.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why?

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

A new book identifies the 1968 Democratic convention as the moment when broad public regard for the news media gave way to widespread distrust, and American divisiveness took off.

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.