Theodore Roosevelt

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

Political scientist Jacob Hacker explains how we wound up with a healthcare system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold so much sway.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Greg Grandin’s new book tells the story of US expansionism and its complex relationship with the rest of the New World.

Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

The United States Postal Service is under federal scrutiny. It’s not the first time.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 

He’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others.

A historian of U.S. empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William McKinley.

The New Deal-era creation of “Bill of Rights Day” obscures the real nature and guardrails of American liberty.

On the medallic art of the Gilded Age.

The forgotten history of the Lloyd-La Follette Act and of whistleblowing in the federal workforce.

Last minute disclosures or revelations can play an outsized role in the last weeks before an election.

Exploring the role mainline Protestants have played in promoting the idea of America as a Christian country.