Jake Lundberg

The rousing urgency of the song seems to possess a power that, according to its own lyrics, “transfigures you and me.”

How America celebrated its 100th birthday.

One monument’s story shows just how quickly a nation’s ideals can erode.

A forceful 19th-century essay on the rise of the slaveholding oligarchy asked: “Where will it end?”

Trump has upended a long tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or profit.

"The Atlantic" was born in an era of information overload.

How he used America’s past to rescue its future.

Now they’ve become an American ritual.

The centuries-long debate over who and what college is for has yet to be resolved.

The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.