Woodrow Wilson

Here's what we've learned about mass protests since the 1917 Silent Parade.

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

This isn’t all history, of course. The Espionage Act is still on the books: Chelsea Manning was charged under it in 2011.

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.

The two versions of WWI taught in most schools tell us as much about the present as they do about the past.

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.

When the war was over, the developed world had little doubt that a nation’s future standing in the world was predicated on access to oil.

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

Recovering black radicalism.

The 20th century produced monuments to a false consensus—can the 21st century create a more representative commemorative sphere?