American politics has long personalized its violence. Time and again, history's advance has been imagined to depend on ...

In the past five years alone, public figures across the ideological spectrum have been targeted. America has seen eras of political violence before.

The assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk has many on both sides of the aisle calling for a cooling of the national temperature.

The death of Charlie Kirk highlights a hard truth: political violence has always shaped American history. A historian traces ...