Barack Obama

Many recoil at the thought of stronger political parties. But revitalized parties could be exactly what our ailing democracy needs.

A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.

Tracing the family history of some of today's most popular celebrities.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.

One of the country’s greatest rhetorical traditions still has the power to remind us of our founding principles.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

A cartoon report on the only policy proven to address the housing shortage and how racism, inept management, and disinvestment led to long-term decline.

New books on the War in Afghanistan endeavor to tell the realities of occupation and the "war on terror."

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

A new book shows that Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.

A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”

The project of “reclamation and celebration” proceeds from an impulse to rediscover black Greats who by force of their own will make “change.”

This new biopic about the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

When Congo gained independence during the Cold War, secret U.S. actions undermined its young democracy. It’s time to make up for that.

Who is counted by the census, how, and for what purpose, has changed a lot since 1790.