Dwight D. Eisenhower

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.

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

Why Anthony Scaramucci’s turn on “Celebrity Big Brother” shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.

300 men and 3,000 miles of bad road.

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

The myth of Ike’s nuclear recklessness could lead us into war.

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.

When the war was over, the developed world had little doubt that a nation’s future standing in the world was predicated on access to oil.

The story of water in the West, climate change, and the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

When the federal government began to claim a stake in the public’s physical fitness, and the origins of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

The story of the oil shocks of 1973 and how they continue to shape the world we live in today.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.

He set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s 1957 attempt to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.