Thomas Jefferson

Unlike the statues of Lee and Jackson, these Charlottesville monuments had less to do with memory than they did with an imagined past.

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.

Photographer Drew Gardner painstakingly recreates the images with the notable figures' descendants.

Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.

The history of using militarized force domestically.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.

The 1800 election shows there is nothing new about conspiracy theories, and that they really take hold when we don’t trust each other.

“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”

A review of "Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle," by Jonathan Horn.

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.

A newly minted celebrity to the world, the future president used his position to procure his preferred beast of burden from the king of Spain.