Jedediah Britton-Purdy

Jedediah Purdy's new book examines why the U.S. has continuously failed to qualify as a system defined by popular rule.

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.

Trump, Biden, and public lands.

As Lincoln recognized, it's not enough to question the decisions, justices, or even the structure of the Court. We need to challenge the foundation of its power.

The transformation of the environmental movement.

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.