Donald Trump

Colin Kaepernick continues a long tradition of athletes using their celebrity to protest America's racial inequality.

The US-Mexico border wall is disrupting and destroying the lives of a united binational community.

The battle between "Happy Holidays" and "Merry Christmas" goes way deeper than you think.

Connections between public history and policy in the wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Why? Because there's very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings.

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?

The history of Time's 'Person of the Year' exemplifies the problem that led to this year's winner.

Some police are becoming more vocal advocates of change. But the project of ending racial bias in policing is a decades-old one.

We might be better off if we knew a little more – or a little less – about her actual life.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

Does our approach to the First Amendment need to change in the wake of this summer's violence in Charlottesville?

How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.

Looking to the French Revolution and the writings of Tocqueville for insight into Trump’s America.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.

How Titus Andronicus drew on Civil War lore to frame contemporary social divides.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.