Thomas Jefferson

The waterway opened up the heartland to trade, transforming small hamlets into industrial centers.

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

This delicious sticky treat has quite the American origin story.

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

The Broadway revival of the musical means less to reanimate the nation’s founding than to talk back to it.

The traditional wooden barn persists even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.

Despite several new lawsuits, investigations, and the bombshell revelations, Trump’s fate will be like that of the former vice president.

A conversation about changing the American story.

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.

The leader of a would-be South Carolina slave rebellion was hanged 200 years ago. A new account is a must-read.

The US Supreme Court's most recent decisions undermine centuries of established secularism within American government.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”