Historians Allida Black and Sean Wilentz talked about President Biden's "Soul of the Nation" speech and threats to American democracy.

When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before WWII.

To conclude my Friday column on the stakes of the 2024 presidential election, I quoted a passage from Sean Wilentz’s 2005 book on the rise of American democracy. Here’s the passage, which I ...

Joining us is Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln; The Age of Reagan ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

His best-known work, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said, characterizing the act as “the latest attempt to gut voting-rights advances that were made in the ...

Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian who specializes in American politics, told me that U.S. history has no exact precedent for a party embracing a leader so openly hostile to the core pillars of ...

As the country celebrates July Fourth with a looming presidential contest, an overwhelming majority fret that democracy has been irreparably harmed.