Woodrow Wilson

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.

Why removing the names of Confederates from military bases matters.

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.

How the history of dispensationalism shapes U.S. foreign policy today.

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

The idea of a modern nation is both confusing and conflicting. And as the world confronts the current global health crisis, its weaknesses become more apparent.

It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military instillations.

Just like today, brass and bureaucrats ignored warnings, and sent troops overseas despite the consequences.

When it's safe to return, baseball can play a big role in uniting Americans and providing comfort.

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.