Ronald Reagan

And cost Gerald Ford the presidency.

How a little-known, century-old law perpetuated the odious notion that certain types of immigrants degrade our nation’s character.

Revisiting the AAUP's 1971 UCLA investigation.

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

Black cowboys made up as much as a quarter of working ranch hands during late 19th century. That legacy has been obscured.

The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history.

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

Our thinking about nostalgia is badly flawed because it relies on defective assumptions about progress and time.

Was he a brilliant painter or a brilliant brand?

‘The Achilles Trap’ reexamines the relationship between Hussein and four U.S. administrations.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

Politicians from both sides used to agree on immigration policy. What happened?

The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

Our political and cultural systems are obsessed with exploiting fears about crime. But it wasn’t always this way.

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

On Oct. 11, 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis and a wave of homophobia, people were asked to take a daring step by declaring publicly that they were gay.

Springsteen's albums offer a tragic-romantic view of the working class in Reagan-era America.