The good doctor’s latest pieties echo an ugly part of the American past, argues Steven Lubet.

Drew Gilpin Faust’s celebrated 2008 study of Civil War trauma mirrors the ever widening scope of our contemporary tragedy.

One wonders how Winslow Homer would have chosen to depict our own seditious imbroglio.

The Bleeding Kansas parallels with our current moment get weirder and darker, as legal historian Steven Lubet explains.

As protests moved from Minneapolis through cities across the country and world, they gained what could be considered a “transitional power.”

Walt Whitman gives us a window into the ways that Americans once dealt with unmanageable tragedy.

People talk of a “constitutional crisis” these days as if we haven’t been in one for years, says historian Jason Tebbe.

We recognize that Memorial Day is primarily a holiday to commemorate those who have died fighting to defend […]