Ronald Reagan

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

The new administration plans to bring back a committee that has tried over the years to guide policy—with mixed results.

Anne Gorsuch Burford — the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

How a work of science fiction anticipated the coming of Trump.

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.

On John Winthrop’s oft-misunderstood use of the phrase “a city upon a hill” to describe the New World.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.