Donald Trump

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.

As Trump calls for legions to, as he proclaimed, 'go into the polls,' we should recall the sordid episode of voter intimidation that happened in Orange County.

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

Through slavery, Indian boarding schools, Japanese internment, mass incarceration, and anti-Communist wars against civilian populations in Latin America.

American photojournalism has always been entangled with race and religion.

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

As a historian, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the fallout from Watts and other rebellions.

Could Donald Trump really rival James Buchanan?

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.

Reflections on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the power of the presidency.

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.