Erick Trickey

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

While the female factory worker is a pop icon now, the “We Can Do It!” poster was unknown to the American public in the 1940s.

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.

Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.

If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited.

Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.

Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders

As the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the Court, a look back at the forgotten mid-19th century battles over the judiciary.