The President doesn’t just laugh at genocide. He actually cheers it, creating a feedback loop with his most dangerous followers, argues historian Michael E. Carter.

The always great Lizzo likely understands junk race-science better than the other great Lizzo (Warren). Alas.

“Dunking” is a way of fighting back against those seeking to delegitimize our profession, argues historian Chris Deutsch.

Social movements from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to #metoo have through their activism rejected the inheritances of the past and created new ways of understanding our contemporary world and acting in the present.

The senator from Nebraska pretends to be both a thoughtful intellectual and a horny-handed son of toil, but he’s pretty much neither.

While it is true that most history professors are somewhere on the left end of the political spectrum, there are a number of problematic assumptions at the heart of the discourse of objectivity that warrant further investigation.

Tropics of Meta may be a good, clean, family blog about historiography, but we do occasionally stray into […]

In this excerpt from his book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, […]