Steven Hahn

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.

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

After emancipation, prison labor replaced slavery as a way for white Southerners to enforce a racial hierarchy.

Is this America?

America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.