Former Richard Nixon White House counsel John Dean, a critical whistleblower in the Watergate scandal, reiterated on the "Court of History" podcast this week with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. One thing stands out amid all the chaos, corruption and disorder: the wanton destructiveness ...

As Wilentz reminds us, it was thought that “most of humanity was unsuited for public duties more elevated than the drudgery of farm animals.” History seemed to bear this out.

Princeton University Professor Sean Wilentz called it an effort “to transform a sitting president into a kind of deified figure” — something, he said, George Washington himself feared.

We begin with Trump’s triumphant return to Washington, after having dodged a slew of lawsuits and captured the Republican Party into supine obedience, who are now rubber-stamping his dangerously ...

Then we assess the failure of the legal system to bring a career criminal to justice before he took over the world and speak with Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American ...

It has been co-authored by eight historians—Kai Bird, Sidney Blumenthal, Ken Burns (best known as a documentarist), Ron Chernow, Beverly Gage, Eddie Glaude, Jon Meacham and Sean Wilentz—and co ...

Writing for The Atlantic, Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz wrote that special counsel Smith made some very smart moves to overcome the Supreme Court's " shocking decision on July 1 to ...

By Donald Gilpin Sean Wilentz Two hundred years ago this month, Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey, welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette to campus and presented him with an ...

Trump in Power With his 1776 Commission on patriotism, Trump helped spark a culture war Trump attempted to use federal power to define how America’s history is taught — and promises to try again.

In this episode of History As It Happens, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz says the Supreme Court’s decision, which effectively will delay Mr. Trump’s trial until after the election, was one ...

WASHINGTON - We now know Americans will elect a new president in November. So, decades down the road, how will President Joe Biden’s time in the Oval Office be remembered? FOX 5 asked two ...