Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended.

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.

From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.

Vice presidential nominees weren't tasked with flinging mud until the last 40 years.

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.

The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. The resemblance is intentional.

The man behind an iconic Vietnam War image captured ‘the ugliest events of our time.'

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

How experts and their facts created immigration restriction.

And other gleanings from the 1949 run of the Saturday Evening Post.

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.