Congress has refused to exercise oversight of the Iran war, with Republicans nixing Democrats’ attempts to exercise legislators’ power over military engagements. That’s nothing new.
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Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
American voters, even those aligned with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, usually shift course when they see they didn’t get what they voted for. Will this fate befall Trump in November?
The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in dangerous, discriminatory ways.
Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering divisions inside the United States.
The mechanics of upending American democracy would entail surmounting a thick tangle of constitutional, bureaucratic, legal and political obstacles.
For more than two centuries, U.S. presidential politics and presidential lives have found various pathways through and beyond despair, affecting Americans of all political stripes.
Donald Trump claims the 2024 election gave him a mandate. Scholars who study the presidency are skeptical about the entire concept of a mandate. That hasn’t stopped many presidents from claiming one.
History illustrates that voters become galvanized and change their party allegiance when former US presidents run for a nonconsecutive term.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
On the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s death, a presidential historian looks at how he was able to stay in power despite his illnesses.
Though progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s national parks, it did so for the enjoyment of white people.
The deal would raise the ceiling for two years, cap some federal spending and impose new work requirements on certain federal benefits. It still needs the blessing of Congress.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
While some Republicans want to put Donald Trump onto Mt. Rushmore, historians often change their views of presidents over time.
If Donald Trump decides to leave the Republican Party and start his own, Teddy Roosevelt and the presidential election of 1912 offer the GOP an ominous warning. Hint: The Democrats win.
Local power struggles and strong US interests have long shaped political leadership – and presidential assassinations – in Haiti, limiting nation-building projects on the Caribbean island.
Only one president has done so – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but others considered it, and even tried.
Four years of ‘America First’ has seen the US retreat from the world. But as a scholar of international relations explains, Biden could return Washington to the role of a more moral global leader.
President Wilson sanctioned segregation policies more than a century ago by targeting Black civil service workers.
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
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Ph.D. candidate, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto
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Professor of Journalism, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer in History, Kingston University
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Regents Professor of History, University of Montana
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Director, School of Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Politics, Sewanee: The University of the South
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Directeur de recherche de classe exceptionnelle (emeritus) of the C.N.R.S., École polytechnique
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Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service; Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Boise State University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of History, University of Richmond