John Quincy Adams

History is asking only one question right now as Trump refuses to concede. Will the Republicans decide they are no longer an American political party?

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.

Descendants of the Pilgrims have highlighted their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.

The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.

Conspiracy theories have been a central feature in American politics since before the Revolution.

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

He never denounced slavery and was brutal towards American Indians, but remains a popular figure. Why?

Why the statesmen of the Roman Republic had such an influence on the patriots of the Revolutionary era.

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.

Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau.

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?

The Alamo supposedly honors the courage of Anglos pitted against Mexican brutality. In fact, it is about slavery and emancipation.

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.