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The 50-year conservative campaign for unshackled executive power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Expecting leaders' good character to ensure virtue ignores the need for constraint and accountability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How did the most unlucky day of the year receive it's "spooky" reputation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1964-1965 New York Fair filled Americans with optimism and excitement for the future despite tumultuous times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthony Comstock, Victoria Woodhull, and what a battle from the 1870s means for 2024 and reproductive rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A 19th century definition of 'character' had more to do with strength than integrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. tried America First. This philosophy helped lead to World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A true classical education teaches that our origins in gender and sexuality are varied and complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent removal of the "LGBTQ Travel" section of the Visit Florida website ignores history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For decades, conservatives like Vance have criticized welfare programs under the guise of defending the nuclear family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decades of austerity in Bangladesh have devastated workers. Today's young people have rejected the status quo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At least since the 1960s, a warped vision of college life has shaped U.S. culture and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2002, Republicans attacked the patriotism of a distinguished Democratic veteran. It worked and they've kept doing it ever since. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea of "Black jobs" owes to 18th and 19th century divisions of labor designed to uphold slavery and white supremacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UFOs are back in the news. As in the Cold War, these sightings reflect broader vulnerabilities rooted in Earthly matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By suggesting that those seeking asylum in the U.S. are dangerous, Trump echoes the often false narratives around the 1980s Mariel boatlift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hamer spoke truth to power at the 1964 DNC. Sixty years later, Kamala Harris takes center stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Walz is following in the footsteps of Democrats like Tom Harkin and Paul Wellstone, who fought for workers and farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harris is the first presidential nominee of either major party to graduate from a historically Black college or university (HBCU). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harris's embrace of a broad conception of freedom builds on more than a century of advocacy by women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biden needs to avoid the mistakes made in 1968 by Lyndon Johnson, who regretted his decision to step aside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even as they've diversified, suburban politics have remained protectionist — often defying ideological categorization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By framing the U.S. as a victim, 'Red Dawn' obscured U.S. aggression in Latin America and elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lyndon Johnson abruptly assumed the presidency and unveiled an agenda that scored him a smashing victory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A college group pioneered the dirty tricks that led to Watergate. Fifty years later, the tactics still poison politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Well-intentioned reforms in the 1970s produced a parade of unintended consequences that made government less functional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vice presidential nominees weren't tasked with flinging mud until the last 40 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The media demonized Victoria Woodhull because she didn't have the reach to respond, and voters never took her seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the first time, men are permitted to compete in artistic swimming at the 2024 Olympics. But none will. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rules are rooted in a myth that goes back to the Games' beginning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consequences mattered to the Founders—and that meant early American judges upheld major gun restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some conservatives want to bring back the problematic "fault" divorce system — while removing its protections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2024 RNC made "law and order" a key theme—a political strategy that goes back beyond Richard Nixon, to FDR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until the late 1960s, the Democratic Party could have simply anointed a replacement for President Biden. Now it's not so easy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today's Games date back to a 1890 sports tournament [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For as long as scientists have studied tornadoes, researchers have dreamed of controlling them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Her career in sex therapy was possible only because of dramatic shifts in American life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tradition dates back to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vance comes on the heels of a long 19th and 20th century tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When sides are deeply polarized, despite briefs moments of unity after violence, they soon retreat to their corners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

President Johnson shocked the nation when he announced he would not run for a second full term—but the First Lady had seen the decision coming for years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gerald Ford won the nomination and the center held. But Ronald Reagan's challenge would have far-reaching consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The story of how moderate Republicans were complicit in the radicalization of the party and their own demise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay component of American college applications has a long history, but its purpose has changed over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's no accident that the architect of 1924's immigration restriction act was from Washington State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patrick Henry's famous call to arms wasn't about radical individualism, but about the community's right to govern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philip Schuyler is a reminder of how the things we rightly celebrate about that period are intertwined with the things from which we recoil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political leadership in a new democracy demanded cognitive sharpness and emotional flexibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Franco-American alliance first flourished in Newport, R.I., helping to win the U.S. to win independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Supreme Court doesn't have the last word; the people do. How attorneys pushed back on the flawed 1987 McCleskey decision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]