Dwight D. Eisenhower

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

Planners of the Interstate Highway System ignored warnings that they were damaging poor Black and Latino neighborhoods.

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."

Calls for control over educators are manufactured political myths as they’ve never had the power to push an agenda.

The rise of a new tax politics has made it harder to address our problems, and now it threatens democracy, too.

It's the resurrection of an old dream.

Noam Chomsky discusses the hypocrisies of US empire and why if we really wanted to build a decent society, we’d immediately slash the massive military budget.

Why and how did D-Day succeed? The question has given postwar historians no peace.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

Harry Emerson Fosdick's ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

Balding has been the constant scourge of man since the beginning of time, and for millennia, our best solution was the comb-over.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.