Barry Goldwater

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

A political neophyte delivered a speech from note cards — and made history.

Shared enemies and ideology matter more than Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

The conservative conspiracy lit that paved the way for Donald Trump.

Here's what to know about the man behind the longstanding rule.

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.

The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

On the early career of the actor-cum-politician who changed America.

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.

Donald’s Trump’s resounding 2024 victory echoes electoral shifts of the past.

Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.

On Nelson Rockefeller and the disappearance of moderate Republicans from American politics.

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.