Donald Trump

Franklin Roosevelt warned that even in peacetime, America’s obligations to the world would continue.

This isn’t the first effort by a president’s appointee to streamline government.

The life and career of Murray Kempton attest to the disappearing ideals of a dying industry. But his example suggests those ideals are not beyond resurrection.

Just because it's man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate.

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.

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

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

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.