Donald Trump

Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviors who could combat the Nazi threat.

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

It lets us avoid harder questions about our culture.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

Shared enemies and ideology matter more than Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.

President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.

The nativist activist helped make anti-immigrant politics mainstream.

The story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.

America won its freedom thanks to strong alliances.

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.

Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.

The Declaration of Independence advocates for liberty and equality. We would do well to remember those principles today.

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.