Preliminary sketch for mural The History of Labor in America, by Jack Beal, c. 1975. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] Even if only semi-consciously, Donald Trump recognized in 2015 that a narrative ...

How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America.

Alexandra Vasti is a literature professor by day and USA Today bestselling romance writer by night. After finishing her PhD at Columbia University, she moved to New Orleans with her family. Her books ...

Americans have fallen short in remembering the full power and promise of the civil rights movement in the 21st century, as politicians and commentators — especially those on the right — substitute ...

Brendan Hornbostel is a PhD candidate in the History Department at George Washington University. Their dissertation examines the history of the Metropolitan Police Department from the Civil War to ...

A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but a new legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

To Lily Simpson, a 30-year-old from London who moved to Copenhagen about two years ago, the Danes have a refreshingly relaxed attitude toward nudity. People don’t generally bother hiding under a towel ...

James H. Barron is the author of The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate. It was a 1968 October Surprise story that might have changed the course of ...