Woodrow Wilson

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.

Babies have been playing in the political arena for a long time.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

Unfortunately, there’s not an unlimited amount of daylight that we can squeeze out of our clocks.

Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.

The history of Black Socialism in America.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.

The notion that a government’s chief obligation is getting stuff done is a fairly recent arrival on the historical scene.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

Who sets the time? After the first repeal of Daylight Saving Time in 1919, the question only became harder to answer.

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.

Hoover was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an effective humanitarian. Why do we remember him as a failure?

Like most relationships, it’s complicated.

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.