David Hackett Fischer

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.

Can our unruly national story be squeezed into two vessels?

During the American Revolution, both the British and the patriots fought to keep sensitive papers out of enemy hands.

“Only two states wanted a civil war—Massachusetts and South Carolina.”

America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power.

A look at the economic changes that occured after the Black Death in Europe and what that could mean for the aftermath of Covid-19.

On 400 years of tribalism, genocide, expulsion, and imprisonment.