Kevin M. Kruse

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

The country song that pits idyllic country life against the corruption of the city is a well-worn trope. Aldean's song reveals the dark heart of the tradition.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

Repression, mediation, and division of Black resistance from 1906 to the 2020 George Floyd Uprising.

In a planned highway widening project, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

It’s a match made in heaven.

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?