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From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

How the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.

Minstrel shows were once so mainstream that even presidents watched them.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

Our fights over nominees might be bitter, but they’re still less contentious than the 19th century.

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together during the infamous pandemic

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

The debate among American Christians over globalism and nationalism is nothing new — rather, it has been going on for decades.

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.

Babies have been playing in the political arena for a long time.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.