John Quincy Adams

Outlandish rumors helped elect Presidents Jackson and Van Buren and have been with us ever since.

Presidents who win the electoral college but lose the popular vote never really recover.

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

Populism stretches through the American experience.

As the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the Court, a look back at the forgotten mid-19th century battles over the judiciary.

America's founders have never enjoyed more sex appeal, but the hit Musical cheats audiences by making democracy look easy.

In 1828, Jackson's campaign argued that an 1824 victory was stolen from him. Is it really so clear-cut?

The rise of a violent authoritarian state under Trump unveils a deep uncertainty over what America is.

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

The Marquis de Lafayette’s final visit to the United States in 1825 can show us how to commemorate the Revolution.

“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

Christy Thornton and Greg Grandin discuss his new book, “America, América,” and the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America.

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology.”

Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.

In 1841, John Tyler said he was the president. The Constitution said he wasn’t. What happened next?

Trump's foreign policy is not as unprecedented as it seems.

As a congressman, Davy Crockett found ways to navigate populist upheaval and maintain his own independence.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?