Thomas Jefferson

What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

We must be cautious of the inclination to find a “usable history” that proves those points we want to prove, that reinforces the lessons we want reinforced.

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.

Research shows that visitors often ignore information that conflicts with what they already believe about history.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

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?

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

Biden will take over a country facing myriad challenges. And Trump's lame-duck period could be one of the most treacherous in American history.

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

History shows that the text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate.

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.

But it’s one historians know all too well.

The document counted my great-great-grandfather as 3/5 of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do.

How the Civil War-era historian effectively invented a distinctly American tradition of historiography.

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.