Papers based on presentations at the conference "Seeing beyond the Partisan Divide", held at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2016. Introduction. Beyond red and blue: ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

It’s often observed that Democratic Party paved the way for Trump’s rise. Historian Lily Geismer discusses how we got here, examining the remaking of liberalism and the Democratic Party, populated by ...

How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.

President Obama recently unveiled a plan to reorganize and streamline government agencies. Sound familiar? It should. Obama’s proposal is the most recent in a long line of presidential “efficiency” ...

Penn’s Department of History hosted a post-election panel titled “The Past and Possible Futures of American Politics” on Nov. 8 in Irvine Auditorium’s Amado Recital Hall. Moderated by history ...

President Obama recently unveiled a plan to reorganize and streamline government agencies. "No business," the president said, "... would allow this kind of duplication or unnecessary complexity in ...

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of ...

Penn’s History Department is adding a new political history concentration, giving students the opportunity to explore the evolution of political institutions and state powers on a national and global ...

Brent Cebul is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His first book, The American Way of Growth: Business, Poverty, and Development in the American Century ...