George Wallace

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and the man who delivered them.

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?

It is hard not to figure the 1968 election as inaugurating the cultural and political polarisation of the American electorate so evident today.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

On (not) voting.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

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.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

A new book traces the tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests in Birmingham.

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

Populism stretches through the American experience.

The Southern president, who kept his head down following Brown v. Board of Education, would eventually declare that “the time for discrimination is over.”

Donald’s Trump’s resounding 2024 victory echoes electoral shifts of the past.

Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.

He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.