Woodrow Wilson

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.

The notion that a government’s chief obligation is getting stuff done is a fairly recent arrival on the historical scene.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

Who sets the time? After the first repeal of Daylight Saving Time in 1919, the question only became harder to answer.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States.

Hoover was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an effective humanitarian. Why do we remember him as a failure?

Like most relationships, it’s complicated.

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.

Here's what we've learned about mass protests since the 1917 Silent Parade.

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

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

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

This isn’t all history, of course. The Espionage Act is still on the books: Chelsea Manning was charged under it in 2011.

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.