Donald Trump

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.

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.

A little understood part of the New Deal.

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

He set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s 1957 attempt to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are just the latest populists to weaponise fears of a sinister “deep state”.

As Democrats became the party of proceduralism, they sidestepped a crucial debate.

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.