In the history of democracy, it is a first. In the history of humankind, it was a remarkable coming of age, an evolution, that at its best would not just reveal our collective soul but also propel ...

The history of that definition is a portion of the history of the evolution of democracy. Rome evolved the idea of a legal body called a corporation; itself a fiction, but a useful legal convention.

Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.

But the shocking scenes of the attack on our Capitol, to subvert a national election, also served as a wake-up call. For many, like us, it was clear that for the sake of our democracy and its future, ...

We at the National Institute of History & Democracy realize our name in our teaching: American history, and the history of democracy, is the story of many people and kinds of people, and all of these ...

As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, award-winning historian and presidential biographer Jon Meacham discusses what history shows us about the resilience of democracy against the rising ...

After WWII and the Cold War, democracy looked unstoppable. Lately, it seems more complicated. Francis Fukuyama, Stanford's Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and the world’s leading author on the subject ...

In the 1850s virtually all Welsh MPs were drawn from the landlord class; by 1906 hardly a single landlord MP was elected. In this change, the key elections were those of 1868 and 1885. The ...

In fact, democracy has been sorely challenged throughout its history. “If compared to the 1990s, then yes, things are getting worse,” said Liana Fix, an expert on Europe at the Council on ...