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Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

An image from the Capitol captures the distance between who we purport to be and who we have actually been.

But the belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion.

What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.

True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.

In ACT UP, belonging was not conferred by blood. Care was offered when you joined others on the street with the intent to bring the AIDS crisis to an end.

The Texas senator claims to be moved by the spirit of 1876, but he’s just another huckster playing a risky game with democracy.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

Nick Tilsen was arrested for protesting President Trump at Mount Rushmore. Now, his legal troubles are part of a legacy.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

A brief history of the Yuletide in America.

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.

James Shapiro’s recent book looks at why Shakespeare has been a mainstay of the cultural and political conflicts of the country since its founding.

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis.

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

With chatter about Texas leaving the union on the rise, two new books remind us what it was like the last time we tried to go it alone.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

And history says they have a reason to be.

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.