Richard Hofstadter

On the failed dreams and forgotten ruins of William Hope Harvey.

"What makes this conspiracy theory so damaging is its adaptability."

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

In the United States, the Populist tradition has always defined left-wing and egalitarian politics, unfairly maligned by bosses and intellectuals alike.

Conspiracy theories have been a central feature in American politics since before the Revolution.

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

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.