Donald Trump

Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century may have undermined trust in government.

There was no “unitary executive” until some dudes made the idea up to save Nixon.

The omissions in Trump's historical narratives reveal how he views national wealth: only the people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder matter.

Trump is not alone in his support for tariffs. Henry Carey also believed tariffs could help American workers.

Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.

When Donald Trump and his followers go in search of historical forerunners to justify their regime, they turn with striking regularity to the presidency.

Late last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to restore “truth and sanity to American history.”

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Greg Grandin’s new book tells the story of US expansionism and its complex relationship with the rest of the New World.

The 1790s debate shows that, even when they aim at moral goods, tariffs abet cronyism and corruption.

Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.

A lifetime spent studying the disastrous lead-up to World War I gave Paul Schroeder reason to be horrified at the recklessness of US foreign policy.

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology.”

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.

William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.

Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

The 1930 tariff bill hurt exporters and provoked other countries to enact their own tariffs as the U.S. economy grappled with the Great Depression.

A global marketplace has shaped the U.S. whiskey industry for a century, even as it brands itself distinctly American.