John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

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

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

Liberal politicians should trumpet a vision of masculinity that incorporates the best qualities of LBJ and Humphrey.

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.

A makeshift memorial in New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic Union soldiers "looks like just a taco stand, without any tacos."

But they've always been risky.

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.

For many American liberals, RFK became a symbol of not just a better past, but also a better future that might have been.

History is coming to life, and scholars are debating the merits of this wave of re-creation and manipulation.

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?

What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

Soviet ban? What Soviet ban?

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.