Lyndon Baines Johnson

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

As Cornel West is receiving ballot access help from Republicans, 20 years ago Al Sharpton’s campaign for president was largely orchestrated by Roger Stone.

Éamon de Valera was accused of attempting an armed uprising against the government. Then he made a daring jailbreak, and later became president of Ireland.

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

How a little-known, century-old law perpetuated the odious notion that certain types of immigrants degrade our nation’s character.

Silence and volume in collections and institutions.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.

The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

For 70 years, the U.S. has failed to achieve faster trains—because it refuses to do what it takes to make them work.

Justifying civilian casualties has a long history.

One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.

Three-quarters of a century before artificial intelligence concerns, rapid advances in automation prompted panic about mass unemployment—and radical solutions.

Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.

In “The Court at War,” Cliff Sloan examines the close relationship between FDR and the high court during World War II.

“We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice.

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.