Theodore Roosevelt

How much do we expect our presidents to rest?

Minstrel shows were once so mainstream that even presidents watched them.

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.

Was the author and poet best known for 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim' truly a racist imperialist?

Wildfires in the American West are becoming ever more prevalent and destructive. How did we get to this point?

In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out 'undesirable' newcomers.

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."

Sanitation reformers confront a neighborhood seemingly immune to state intervention.

The problems of presidential gigantism can’t be solved by finding the right giant—the office is dying from its own growth.

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.

Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

New York's statue debate hits Italian-Americans hard.

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?