Professor of History Andrew Donson and the University of Massachusetts History Department held the second and final lecture panel in a series discussing the meaning of democracy in Herter Hall.

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

On June 10, 2018, Americans learned that the president of the United States was routinely ripping apart memos, letters, annotated newspaper clippings and other pieces of paper that crossed his desk.

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As we approach the climax of our presidential campaign with the November general election, we are conscious that history is about to be made that will determine the future of our democracy. Events and ...

David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in New York University’s department of politics and an affiliated professor in NYU School of Law. He is the author ...

By studying history, we can better know what to do and what not to do. In 2017, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” a short book about how ...

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2024 will be the biggest voting year in history. Some 4.2 billion people, or more than half of humanity, live in the 76 countries that are scheduled to hold elections. That question may sound cynical.

Eighth-grade U.S. history and civics test scores dropped last year to their lowest levels ever recorded by the Department of Education. These are just the latest declines among subjects tested since ...

A conversation between Jill Lepore and Rebecca Henderson by Laura Amico The Big Idea Series / Democracy Under Attack In “ The Business Case for Saving Democracy,” Harvard Business School professor ...