President Donald Trump is America’s first rentier president. A rentier is a sort of capitalist parasite who extracts wealth from the economy without contributing to economic productivity. He is the ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

During both of his campaigns, current President Donald J. Trump aggressively courted Christians, netting support from 48% of Protestants, including 72% of white evangelicals, and 52% of Catholics.

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.