Before entering politics, Donald Trump was a polarizing businessman and a fixture in Hollywood. From his NBC reality TV show, ...

An expansive new biography of William F. Buckley Jr. traces the eventful life of the conservative activist who intuitively grasped the media’s centrality to politics. By Jennifer Burns Jennifer Burns ...

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. By Dana Goldstein In ...

Punishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775. Interim Archives/Getty Images Others similarly weighed in. Whoopi Goldberg on “The ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Kathryn Cramer Brownell, professor of history and director of the Center for American Political History and Technology within the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, ...

On Sept. 2, a rarity will arrive in bookstores: a volume that manages to bridge the divides of today’s highly polarized politics. That book is the Almanac of American Politics. An updated version of ...

People are more satisfied with the direction of the country than at any point in recent history, the latest feather in President Donald Trump's hat. On the edge of majority support for weeks, the ...