What did Barack Obama accomplish? And how much of it will survive in the age of Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in.

Why was Haiti's revolutionary overlooked by historians for so long?

The paranoid style in American politics has its roots in a deep insecurity.

The story of two abducted brothers takes us to the origins of black celebrity in America.

Was the Constitution designed to make the United States less democratic?

A new book outlines an epidemic of over-diagnosis and addiction.

Nancy Isenberg's new book tells the story of a large and forgotten class of “waste people.”

Philippe Sands's new book is both a family memoir and a gripping courtroom drama.

A new biography explains the contradictions in a man who defended equality while owning slaves.

Do our memorials to the dead do more harm than good?

Adam Hochschild's book is a post-Cold War history of the Spanish Civil War.

Candidates always try to paper over their flaws by comparing themselves to iconic presidents. And it almost never works.

Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed.

A historian attempts to follow Tudor hygiene with a daily regime of linen underwear.

A new book ignores the disturbing history of finance in America.

For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.

Two new books reveal the fantastical studios and vibrant colors of early film.