America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

In his attack on Black elected officials, Trump is harkening back to the worst of post-Reconstruction America.

American democracy may perish from the earth.

We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland awakened a violent chapter in our history—and vowed to write a new one.

The Capitol insurrection was born of a violent minoritarian tradition that is as American as apple pie—and it isn’t done yet.

How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election

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

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

The GOP's anti-urban agenda takes many forms, but it always tracks back to wealthy whites' fear of losing power.

Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

How the legacy of Jim Crow haunts Trump's America

The president insists that he, not the Constitution, determines who is an American.

When the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that the group even existed.