Joanne B. Freeman

The radicalization of a congressional clerk in the 1800s and the introduction of the telegraph set a young country on a new trajectory.

This information is crucial for getting the election right.

Trump and other peddlers of angry rhetoric may reap short-term gains, but history suggests they will provoke a fearsome backlash.

The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.