Theodore Roosevelt

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.

When religion became the veil for racial violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?

The failed assassination of Donald Trump might not have any lasting effect on the election or politics in general.

What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age?

A shocking image of the 1906 atrocity survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone.

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.

On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.