Theodore Roosevelt

Americans, warned President Teddy Roosevelt's newly appointed opium commissioner in 1908, 'have become the greatest drugs fiends in the world.'

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.

The political theory of Trumpism.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

Bureaucracy used to work through patronage, an informal system of job-distribution by the party in power. Why did it change?

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

How did Niagara Falls become the Honeymoon Capital of the World?

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.

“Terrible, terrible! A thousand casualties. And heartrending scenes. Men trampling down women and children. Most brutal thing…” — James Joyce, Ulysses

Walter Camp praised the sport as a way to toughen up élite young white men. Despite changes to the game and society, his legacy remains.

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.