Heather Cox Richardson

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

The tensions between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

You likely think of the American West as deeply conservative and rural. Yet history shows this politics is very new indeed.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

When modern conservatives associate activists of color with communism, they’re drawing on a racist history that goes back over 100 years.

The fashion trend is shorn entirely of the racism and colonial entitlement it once cloaked.

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.