Woodrow Wilson

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.

Suffragists coalesced in San Francisco to push for nationwide women' suffrage and send a petition to Congress for the vote.

What prospects are there today for assessing American politics and history from an early Hofstadterian remove?

The papers of American labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) offer a snapshot of early twentieth-century politics.

What shark attacks in 1916 could tell us about the midterms in 2022.

On July 1, 1916, a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, N.J.

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.

The Julian Assange case exposes how changing concepts unintentionally broadened a law.

These Progressive Era Republicans wanted to run the Federal government like a business.

What degree of legitimacy by voters does a public institution need in a democracy, and how much independence do experts in such an institution need to do their job?

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

How an industry responded to the needs of workers and of the federal government during a time of rapid mobilization for wartime production.

Shaina Taub’s new musical follows Alice Paul’s tireless quest to win American women the vote.

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

Supreme Court confirmation hearings feature senators talking a lot, and nominees nodding politely until they can leave.

World War I saw the advent of chemical weaponry, and a mysterious chapter in the history of American University in Northwest DC.

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

Over the past century, the United States came to rely ever more on economic coercion—with questionable results.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?