Dwight D. Eisenhower

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

On the origins of the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to call on federal troops and state militias to put down insurrections.

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.

It's all about an agenda — and it's nothing new.

From religious liberty to religious violence, it helps to get our facts straight.

In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual.

How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.

Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.

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

U.S. presidential elections didn't drag on so long before the late sixties.

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.