Donald Trump

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

The danger of President Trump's rhetoric.

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.

How the ancient, antisemitic nocturnal ritual fantasy expresses itself through the ages—and explains the right’s fascination with fringe conspiracy theories.

Why President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the election results is so dangerous.

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.

This 1952 textbook serves as an example of the "patriotic history" that Donald Trump grew up with and calls for today.

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

In a recent speech, Trump looks to America's past for answers. However, the history he recounts is glaringly limited.

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.

Without justice for all, none of us are free.

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

Calling QAnon a "cult" or "religion" hides how its practices are born of deeply American social and political traditions.