Thomas Jefferson

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

The Broadway revival of the musical means less to reanimate the nation’s founding than to talk back to it.

The traditional wooden barn persists even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.

Despite several new lawsuits, investigations, and the bombshell revelations, Trump’s fate will be like that of the former vice president.

A conversation about changing the American story.

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.

The leader of a would-be South Carolina slave rebellion was hanged 200 years ago. A new account is a must-read.

The US Supreme Court's most recent decisions undermine centuries of established secularism within American government.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

Why our politics are growing ever more extreme — and democracy itself is under siege.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

In "A Nation of Descendants," Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots.

Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home.