The parallels to previous tumultuous eras in U.S. history are striking, and the Trump assassination attempt only sharpens them.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Mississippi still marks Confederate Heritage Month every April.

The Republican presidential nominee couldn’t seem to recall any details about the pivotal battle.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

Researching public figures’ families is much easier than it used to be—but that doesn’t mean it’s inherently enlightening.

Our grid is a mess. Its formation could teach us how to fix it.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

Unlike accounts that focus on the travails of European settlers, Pekka Hämäläinen’s new book tells a 10,000-year story of Native cultures, politics, and resistance.

A new work of history finds the best antidote to today’s authoritarian politics in Daniel Webster’s nineteenth-century civic nationalism.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

Juneteenth is an opportunity to recover the possibilities of history

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

A new book argues that the threat of secession has never left American politics.

The Gettysburg gambit is just his latest attempt to appropriate American history and symbology and pervert it to suit his ends.

On new nonfiction about white supremacy in America's past and present

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.

Stephen King’s story focuses on our culture’s obsessive denial of grief.

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?