Woodrow Wilson

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.

In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

To understand Congress’s abdication, look at the history of presidential selection.

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.

Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.

Accidentally sharing attack plans in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.

During World War I, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

Spencerism in America.

Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.