Theodore Roosevelt

A look at how and why African Americans first started to abandon the GOP for the Democratic Party.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s struggle against polio transformed him into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.

Steps from Georgetown, a memorial to Teddy Roosevelt stands amid ghosts of previous inhabitants: the Nacotchtank, colonist enslavers, and the emancipated.

A historic 1908 conference transcended party and personal interest for the ‘common good.'

Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

How the push for statehood led a beacon of racial progress to oppression and violence.

A new book charts the long contest between elites and the forces of democracy seeking to dismantle their power.

Museum visitors, as well as scholars of art, history, and African and Native American studies, discuss the sculpture’s intended and perceived meanings.

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

Before the establishment of the modern FDA, anti-regulation attitudes ruled the world of food.

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.

From Davy Crockett to Teddy Roosevelt, this is the legacy of hunting in American culture.

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

Never before have administrations scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

If too much partisanship is the problem, more bureaucracy might be the answer.