How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America.

A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but a new legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new project ...

Caroline Wazer is a writer, editor, and translator based in Central New York. She has written for outlets including Lapham’s Quarterly, The Atlantic, and Atlas Obscura. Samuel Pepys, by John Hayls, ...

This is a guest post by David Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at Yale, and friend of The Racket. His book, Taking America Back: ...

David Carlin works on Climate Change for the UN Environment Program’s Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). He leads a global project to help banks understand and assess the risks and opportunities brought ...

The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment is often framed as a classic fight between liberals and conservatives with liberals supporting the amendment to ensure gender equality and conservatives ...

Kevin M. Cherry is an associate professor of political science at the University of Richmond. His areas of expertise include classical and American political thought. He is the author of Plato, ...

R. B. Bernstein teaches political science at City College of New York. His most recent book is The Education of John Adams (Oxford University Press). Watercolor, Adams family home, 1798. Collection of ...