Dwight D. Eisenhower

Since the 1920s, “highway hypnosis” has lulled drivers to disaster.

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

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

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

The Manhattan Project scientists tried to advocate for nuclear de-escalation-instead, they unwittingly abetted the Vietnam War.

We're supposed to celebrate one of the weirdest artifacts of the Cold War.

George Kennan's diaries reveal just how much he hated America.

Building the Panama Canal.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

Why we pay.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

The date of Occupy's strike has ties to the eight-hour day movement, immigrant workers and American anarchism.

American art and the Cold War.

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.