Woodrow Wilson

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.

The answer reveals grave robbing problems for America’s deceased leaders.

In his latest book, Michael Kazin argues that the Democrats have long sought to build a “moral capitalism.” Have they ever succeeded?

The relationship between two true believers in American exceptionalism.

What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

More than 500 historians signed onto this letter of support for the demands of railway workers.

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.

Suffragists coalesced in San Francisco to push for nationwide women' suffrage and send a petition to Congress for the vote.

The papers of American labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) offer a snapshot of early twentieth-century politics.

What prospects are there today for assessing American politics and history from an early Hofstadterian remove?

What shark attacks in 1916 could tell us about the midterms in 2022.

On July 1, 1916, a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, N.J.

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.

The Julian Assange case exposes how changing concepts unintentionally broadened a law.