JD Vance

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.

A history of Catholic immigration and activity in colonial North America.

A short history of the long war on drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.

The century-long debate over whether parental divorce harms or helps children.

How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.

Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

What's up at the NatC Conference.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

What J.D. Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration.

Knowledge workers, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization until AI and a hypercompetitive employment market.

Jack Hanson on the new pope and his namesake.

An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.

On the tension between celebratory rhetoric and restrictive policy surrounding immigration.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

A new collection of essays by David Montgomery shows how he used labor history as a means of grappling with the largest questions in American history.