Thomas Jefferson

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.

On 400 years of tribalism, genocide, expulsion, and imprisonment.

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.

Champions of states' rights love federal power when it suits their goals — like Sessions's anti-marijuana crusade.

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.

A reminder of history's proximity is prompted by a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The house in American cinema, from the plantation to Chavez Ravine.

Aaron Burr spoke of far-flung fortune, and then the Blennerhassetts’ West Virginia Eden went up in flames.

How changing gender norms and conceptions of childhood shaped modern child custody laws.

What should be done with civic monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders?

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

Our circumstances have changed a lot since early colonial times. Unfortunately, our thinking about climate hasn’t changed enough.

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

For decades, the military made sure soldiers had access to the treat—including spending $1 million on a floating ice-cream factory.

The rise of public education in America.

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

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