Thomas Jefferson

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

Biden will take over a country facing myriad challenges. And Trump's lame-duck period could be one of the most treacherous in American history.

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

History shows that the text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate.

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

But it’s one historians know all too well.

The document counted my great-great-grandfather as 3/5 of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do.

How the Civil War-era historian effectively invented a distinctly American tradition of historiography.

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.

Unlike the statues of Lee and Jackson, these Charlottesville monuments had less to do with memory than they did with an imagined past.

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.

Photographer Drew Gardner painstakingly recreates the images with the notable figures' descendants.

Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.