WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Kathryn Cramer Brownell, professor of history and director of the Center for American Political History and Technology within the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, ...

Every year, as Vietnam marks April 30 – a date it calls the “Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification” – the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) renews its familiar campaign of ...

On Sept. 2, a rarity will arrive in bookstores: a volume that manages to bridge the divides of today’s highly polarized politics. That book is the Almanac of American Politics. An updated version of ...

How has the idea of revolution changed? A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. The storming of the Bastille. Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always ...

LEWISTON, Maine – In October, the professor in my American Parties, Campaigns, and Elections class read aloud some politicians’ quotes about their opponents and asked us to guess who said them. Some ...