Theodore Roosevelt

The city’s move to rename schools will provide invaluable ammunition to Fox News.

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

Since we have new presidential pets, Champ and Major, we take a quick look back at one of the nation’s most famous four-legged White House inhabitants.

The collapse of the Republican Party.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

167 Black soldiers were dishonorably discharged from the army in 1906. Two Angelenos corrected the historical record in the 1970s.

The United States often touts itself as a "nation of immigrants," but this obscures the real story.

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.

While assisting businesses, Congress must also continue to help consumers.

But did they backfire?

The Gilded Age roots of Trump's trade philosophy.

Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.

What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States

The long and complicated life of Kipling's famous poem.

What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?

It was everywhere at the turn of the 20th century. It was also inedible.

Calvin Coolidge and others are bringing together student libertarians and trads, but that doesn't make for a coherent coalition.