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.

On the Saturday before Election Day this year, a coalition of scholars who study authoritarianism issued an open letter of warning titled, “How to Keep the Lights on in Democracies.” It began: ...

Keane (The New Despotism), a professor of politics at the University of Sydney, delivers a concise and informative history of democracy “as an unending process of humbling unconstrained power.” ...

In an extended interview, we speak with archeologist David Wengrow, who co-authored the new book “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” with the late anthropologist David Graeber. The ...

Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of... Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of civil rights progress ...

The Burning of the Château d’Eau at the Palais-Royal, 1848, by Eugène Henri Adolphe Hagnauer. (Corbis / Getty) One of the more contentious issues to emerge during America’s Covid-19 crisis concerns ...

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 ...

The Electoral College is back at the center of our national political conversation. The fact that Hillary Clinton received 2.7 million more popular votes in 2016 than Donald Trump and still lost the ...

Alicia Cheng’s new book, ‘This Is What Democracy Looked Like,’ examines voting through a very specific lens: the ballot. The presidential election is mere weeks away, and ballots are being cast as we ...

For more than two centuries, Americans have largely cast their votes on paper. Yet the paper trail of that long history is thin. That’s because U.S. law requires that ballots, a record-keeping ...

In this fast-paced and engaging book, Keane tells the story of societies across the ancient and modern eras struggling for self-government. Democracy’s journey is best seen not as the steady march of ...