Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved by Saul Cornell The Second Amendment is one of the most frequently cited provisions in the American Constitution, but also one of the most poorly understood.

The American public has power over the gun business – why doesn’t it use it? by Brian DeLay The American public has more power over the gun business than most people realize. Taxpayers have always been the arms industry’s indispensable patrons.

Billy Graham was on the wrong side of history by Matthew Avery Sutton Racial tensions are rising, the earth is warming, and evangelicals are doing little to help. That may be Graham’s most significant, and saddest, legacy.

The Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois by Ibram X. Kendi How the 1899 lynching of Sam Hose affected the writing of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic.

Michelle Obama and the black women of the White House by Martha S. Jones What the former first lady's new portrait reveals.

Liberalism After Liberalism by Win McCormack The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure

Trump, Democracy, and the Constitution by Michael Klarman The American people elected a president who disdains basic tenets of democracy.

What South Korea can learn from Germany by A. James McAdams History suggests the enunciation of a South Korean version of Germany’s “change through rapprochement” could be Washington’s best hope.

Mythbusting Ancient Rome: did Christians ban the ancient Olympics? by Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik The idea that the athletic contests – held in honour of the Greek god Zeus for over a thousand years – were shut down by a puritanical Christian emperor makes for a good story. But is it true?

When Immigrants Were Welcomed by Jim Sleeper Congress has failed immigrants again. But in the 1920s, this plan quieted xenophobes and nurtured new Americans.

Literally drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews by Edward B Westermann The role of alcohol in the Nazi genocide of European Jews deserves greater attention.