On the left and the right, commentators are playing fast and loose with references to totalitarianism.

A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country

Two new books explain how the Klan gained so much power in the 1920s.

Can the museum tell a new story about art—and reshape the Gulf's image?

Why policymakers calculate the cost of life and death, sickness and health

Anne Applebaum's new book tells of an atrocity and cover-up that shape today's politics.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

Meredith Hindley's new book tells of the wartime refugee route that inspired a classic.

John Merriman's new book tells the story of a violent gang in nineteenth-century Paris.

A new biography of the 18th president manages to avoid the pitfalls of what has become a highly lucrative genre.

David Armitage's book tracks changing definitions of civil war, from Ancient Rome to the American Civil War to now.

Elisabeth Rosenthal's new book 'An American Sickness' traces the effects of profit in American health care.

Watergate experts are in high demand these days—and torn about it.

The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.

The state of our teeth reveals—and reinforces—economic disadvantage in society.

A new book looks at the triumphs and challenges of the renegade housing movement.

They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?