How not to learn about the American past

Three new books show how Northern states betrayed Black people, and why many found Mexico a safer destination.

The inane system our founders developed to choose the president is an anti-democratic remnant of the slavery era that only benefits the GOP.

Christopher Chitty’s “Sexual Hegemony” is a galaxy-brain examination of the ways in which markets and sexuality intersect.

Instead of traveling the same old blind alleys, Senators should ask Trump’s Supreme Court nominee probing questions about American history.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

The Green New Deal wouldn’t require as much effort as World War II, says the linguist in his new book.

How a Republican presidential candidate became a leading critic of empire

In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.

Three fascism scholars explain why the term remains taboo in American culture—and how that must change.

From George Washington to Simón Bolívar, magnetic leaders built modern democracies. They also broke them.

The latest season of Leon Neyfakh’s podcast is another forensic dissection of a well-known, but little-understood, part of American history.

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a flashpoint in today’s reckoning with racist statues.

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.

It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.

The former British prime minister’s support for progressive economic ideas has been largely unappreciated by history.

The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.

Fewer humans do not a healthier planet make.

For the first time in a while, Texas is considering curbing oil supply.

Can we salvage an egalitarian vision from the ruins of Labor Zionism?