Richard Hofstadter

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

In the United States, the Populist tradition has always defined left-wing and egalitarian politics, unfairly maligned by bosses and intellectuals alike.

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

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?

How did a firearm safety and training organization turn into one of America's largest and most influential lobbying groups?

“Together with other ‘know nothing’ organizations scattered through the country, it represents a basic, continuing phenomenon in American society.”