Pence’s announcement that he will run for president brings to mind how rare it is for a vice president to compete against a former running mate.
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Compromises, no matter how horrible, have long been used to solve seemingly intractable political problems – but at a cost.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, first established a set of political decorum rules in legislatures to help establish stability during the country’s early years.
Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.
While some Republicans want to put Donald Trump onto Mt. Rushmore, historians often change their views of presidents over time.
Americans are not the first to fret over the potential harm that parties can inflict. But parties can also promote the common interest.
Many people define ‘bias’ as ‘anything that doesn’t agree with me.’ But are the news media really biased?
The celebration of generous portions, meat and fat as masculine and patriotic would have been alien to Washington and Jefferson, who advocated vegetables and moderation as American ideals.
Historians of American religious history explain why the Supreme Court’s recent religious liberty rulings are an example of America’s long struggle to define religious freedom.
The vice president has said he looks forward to meeting the framers of the Constitution in heaven. That is not the mindset of someone with short-term vision.
Coverage of the House Jan. 6 hearings focuses on what went wrong that led up to Trump supporters’ laying siege to the US Capitol. A government scholar looks at what went right, both then and now.
Once owned by James Madison, the Montpelier plantation remains a model for presenting a full depiction of the life of the former president as well as the lives of those he enslaved.
Like today, passions were strong and political discourse was inflamed in late 18th-century America. Angry mobs torched buildings. Virginians drank a toast to George Washington’s speedy death.
The Founding Fathers were unrelenting in their commitment to the idea that circumstances can arise that require public officials to take actions abridging individual freedoms.
Few people embody the contradictions of U.S. history like the author of the Star Spangled Banner, someone who denounced slavery as a moral wrong but rejected racial equality.
Fewer than half of Americans report knowing someone who is Muslim. Here we explain Islam, its diversity and its long history in the United States.
Democracies degenerate because of cunning leaders. Democracies also crumble because of the people themselves – and the US founders believed education would be crucial to maintaining democracy.
A scholar of early US history celebrates the country’s birthday with six under-appreciated ideas about the founding document.
Only one president has done so – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but others considered it, and even tried.
A president’s persona is always a public act. In that way, Trump’s shtick – vulgar man of the people – was not exceptional. And every president has had to invent his version of the role.
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
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Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
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Professor of History, Kennesaw State University
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Management and Wine Business, Sonoma State University
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Gettysburg College
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Professor of History, University of South Carolina