This workshop will provide an important avenue to explore one of the more vigorous developments in the social sciences over the past decade: an interdisciplinary revitalization of the study of American politics from historical perspectives. The central aim of the workshop is to explore the roles that politics – broadly construed – have played in American history, and how understanding those political developments can reveal a richer and more nuanced view of American and related histories more generally. While workshop presentations and discussions will be historically and U.S. focused, they will also address both the connections between past and current events and the world beyond the United States.