Richard Nixon

Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history—and won't help us address our current political crisis.

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled.

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

State leaders went to great lengths to instill their gauzy version of the Lost Cause in young minds.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.

Whether it’s happening or not.

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?

They’re good for kickstarting political debate but analogies with the past are often ahistorical and should be treated with care.

Before presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, there was Congresswoman and firebrand Bella Abzug.

In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today's political reaction.

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

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.

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

A combination of historical surpluses—the afterlives of slavery, of the deranged presidency—has raised the stakes in the present struggle.

There are superficial similarities, but what we’re seeing now is something completely new.

Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they’re woke.

Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.