Lyndon Baines Johnson

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

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

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.

Roger Mudd proved in 1964 that media attention can help overcome Senate obstruction.

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.

How English and Esperanto offer competing visions of a universal language.

Understanding this history helps make the case for D.C. as the 51st state.

Reforms have only made obstruction the Founders never intended worse.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

The answer can change over time.

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.

The collapse of the Republican Party.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.