Woodrow Wilson

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.

In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?

US shifts on propaganda efforts show a cycle of dismantling and revival, as tech-driven “information states” blur lines between influence, control, and freedom.

The long history of Black heroism and service—and the current efforts to erase it.

How car-centric urbanism eclipsed the utopian transportation visions that once shaped urban imagination.

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.

Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics.

How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America.

To understand Congress’s abdication, look at the history of presidential selection.

Pancho Villa’s death reveals how the border blurs the relationship between Mexico and the United States.

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.

Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

How and why Walter A. McDougall's representation of history differs from the standard narrative, especially regarding the Wilson administration.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.