George Wallace

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

The right’s facile comparisons of the two presidents miss the vastly different circumstances facing Biden and distort Carter’s record.

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.

The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

The House approved a constitutional amendment to dismantle the indirect voting system, but it was killed in the Senate by a filibuster.

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next.

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

The Insurrection Act of 1807, which Trump has threatened to invoke, is the linchpin of several iconic events in African American history.