Woodrow Wilson

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.

Even when the president’s party passes historic legislation, voters don’t seem to care.

The Constitution meant for Congress to pass bills by a simple majority. But the process has changed over the decades.

The fate of electrified “rural trolleys” at the beginning of 20th century could offer lessons for today’s train boosters.

Understanding how the National Park Service Director is chosen is important for understanding the current state of our national parks system.

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

Half a world away, the citizens of two nations suffer at the hands of a familiar malefactor.

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is a refusal to acknowledge that American schools have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.

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!