Adam Hochschild

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

A zealot through and through, he ran the FBI like a religious sect.

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

Despite their minority status, the Socialists had been a significant force in American politics before patriotic war hysteria brought on an era of repression.

Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed.

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.

Three new books paint a more nuanced portrait of the American militias whose gun rights have been protected since the founding.