Thomas Jefferson

Popularized by Thomas Jefferson, this versatile dish fulfills our nation’s quest for the ‘cheapest protein possible.’

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.

The Founders feared democracy and didn't think too highly of "the people".

This is not "forbidden knowledge." It is America’s most ancient justification for bigotry and racial inequality.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

From William McKinley to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.

A republic needs a legislature that can handle such tasks. We don’t have one.

The hidden cost of formal recognition for American Indian tribes.

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.