George Wallace

It was a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion.

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

Ronald Reagan proved instrumental to Southerners bringing their cultural conservatism to center stage for the Republican Party.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

How the Southern Strategy of the late 20th century gave rise to the modern GOP.

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.

What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.

Conservatives love to bemoan their supposed status as oppressed minorities in universities. But the college campus has long been a key site for the Right.

Unlike the Southern whites who moved en masse during the 20th century, these early migrants often had direct, personal ties to the institution of slavery.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

A far right politics that developed in the middle of the 20th century has prevented Democrats from gaining as they have in suburbs elsewhere.

For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.

65 years ago this week, Edwin Walker helped enforce Little Rock integration. Then he devoted himself to segregation.

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

How more than a century of whitewashed history poisons Alabama today.