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The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

From 1956–1978, Republicans backed D.C. representation, but now oppose it, reflecting a broader GOP shift against voting rights and toward partisan control.

As a political reporter, I've seen four Republican revolutions — Reagan’s, Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.

When the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ran for president, he wasn’t seeking further glory but a policy change in religious liberty.

In the Texas legislature, Republicans seemed willing to acknowledge systemic racism but resistant to the idea of talking about it with children.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.

Though the cruelties of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy were unique, they were part of an American tradition of taking children from parents.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.