Woodrow Wilson

The assassination of the president is part of a pattern that undermines democracy.

An interview with Jesse Tarbert about the history of the American state, “big government,” and the legacy of government reform efforts.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

Popular politics and reconstructing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

W.E.B. DuBois, 100 years ago.

A Story Map that highlights events, sites, and people important to Native American history.

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

The modern GOP isn't the first party to embrace huge conspiracies. But the lessons should be sobering.

The answer can change over time.

A violent confrontation between the IWW and the American Legion put organized labor on trial, but a hostile federal government didn’t stop the IWW from growing.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.