Theodore Roosevelt

The danger of making wars into moral crusades.

The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.

Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

"The American Scene" is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.

Let us let the ghosts of the megafauna rise, but let us leave the old imperialists to lie in their graves undisturbed.

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

The Bidens' new cat Willow will be the first feline in the White House since the George W. Bush years, but is part of a long tradition.

A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.

A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.

In the early 20th century, labor unrest and strike breaking were done not by the government, but by private agencies and self-appointed vigilantes.

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place in Los Angeles.

Muscular Christianity — with scriptural interpretations that can favor “stand your ground” over “turn the other cheek” — has a long tradition in the U.S.

The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre.

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

Indigenous nations are spearheading a movement to restore buffalo to the American landscape.

Hyphenation became a complex issue of identity, assimilation, and xenophobia amid anti-immigration movements at the turn of the twentieth century.

The decades after the Civil War saw mass participation and mass outrage, followed by a period of orderly reform. What can we learn from that era today?