Lyndon Baines Johnson

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.

After a Rio Grande flood shifted a 437-acre strip of land from Mexico to Texas, the area was the site of a long border dispute.

A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

Building the Panama Canal.

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.

You will never think about the 36th president the same way again.

How does the global effort to eradicate smallpox fit into the history of U.S.-Soviet relations?

How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American.

Was the 2008 Heller decision a victory for originalism or a living Constitution?

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

With the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George W. Bush restarts a long and troubled tradition.

The question of whether or not one served, or was willing to serve, or would be willing to serve, goes deeper than name-calling and allegations of draft dodging.

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."

Reflections on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.