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A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Mills exposed postwar American power and warned of an authoritarian turn in the book, which speaks to our own moment of inequality and right-wing anger.

Georgia’s competitive runoff election is the result of centuries of white supremacist efforts.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

The conservative successes of the Eisenhower administration have been too quickly forgotten.

In the 1990s, liberal intellectuals complained that evangelicals were moralistic on political questions. Now the complaint is reversed.

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.

Aaron Burr was the highest-ranking official to stand trial for treason, which some people have invoked now amid probes into ex-president Donald Trump.

The world is still reeling from the pandemic, but another scourge we thought we’d eliminated has reemerged.

Fifty years ago, zealots preaching misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.

Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.

The second section of the Fourteenth Amendment offers severe penalties for menacing the right to vote—if anyone can figure out how to enforce it.

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.