The Crassness and Anti-Intellectualism of President Donald Trump

by Walter G. Moss

It’s an old story in American history—and it’s getting worse.

A Golden Age for American History Scholarship? It Was the Mid-1950s.

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

Just consider the names of historians writing then: C. Vann Woodward, Kenneth Stampp, John Hope Franklin, Thomas Bailey, Daniel Boorstin, Edmund Morgan, Robert V. Bruce, Richard Hofstadter, Edward C. Kirkland, and many more.

Richard Hofstadter’s Brilliant Essay Misled Us About the Paranoid Style of American Politics

by Rob Brotherton

Turns out, it’s not a phenomenon of the fringe.

How Hofstadter and Schlesinger Misled Us About FDR: An Interview with Eric Rauchway

by Eric Rauchway

They claimed his views on monetary policy evolved. A close study of the record shows he always wanted to use the dollar to undermine fascism.