John Fitzgerald Kennedy

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.

When it seemed that steel had lost its gleam with American consumers, the industry turned to marketing to make it shine again.

The context in which King shared his views on the filibuster is the same one in which the Senate now finds itself: amid battles over voting rights legislation.

The holiday favorite is an allegorical prayer for peace.

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

There are more than 400 million guns in Americans' hands.

Learning the right lessons of the past.

Enacting vaccination mandates demands political give and take.

A review of "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime."

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

The idealistic presidential candidate was on the verge of seizing control of the 1968 race just as Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet struck.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

John Glenn's fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

A popular theory links the closing of state psychiatric hospitals to the increased incarceration of people with mental illness. The reality is more complicated.

Support for and opposition to the ERA are not positions that are fundamentally tied to either conservatism or liberalism.