Woodrow Wilson

When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement traces back to 1917.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Think this year’s Democratic convention is going to be nuts? One hundred years ago, Democrats took 103 ballots—and more than two weeks—to choose a candidate.

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

The long history and contemporary relevance of war tax resistance.

But it didn’t work out for their parties.

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.

The answer reveals grave robbing problems for America’s deceased leaders.

In his latest book, Michael Kazin argues that the Democrats have long sought to build a “moral capitalism.” Have they ever succeeded?

The relationship between two true believers in American exceptionalism.

What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

More than 500 historians signed onto this letter of support for the demands of railway workers.

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.