Power

Political funerals and the tour of Henry Clay's corpse.

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.

The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

Grover Cleveland believed that if anything happened to his mustache during his surgery at sea, the public would know something was wrong.

To mark the culmination of Census 2010, we explore the fascinating story of how Americans have counted themselves.

Nine maps of the transatlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1900.

Whenever Democrats lose votes, pundits crow that they've lost the working class. Not so, though they have alienated unions.

Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.

In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.

Political scientist Jacob Hacker explains how we wound up with a healthcare system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold so much sway.

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.

Why 16 year-olds can help us heal our broken political system.

In the 1872 election, Victoria Woodhull ran for president of the United States – the first woman in American history to do so.

That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.

In 1828, Jackson's campaign argued that an 1824 victory was stolen from him. Is it really so clear-cut?

The conversation around race after Hurricane Katrina echoed discourse from another New Orleans disaster 150 years before.

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.

Two legal scholars make the case that President Bush must seek congressional authorization before initiating a preemptive military strike on Iraq.

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.

In the wake of the Second World War, Eleanor Roosevelt seized the moment and gave lasting life to the idea of universal human rights.

Culture-shocked Americans in the 1960s were all too happy to take directions from the John Birch Society: take an extreme right and drive forever.

Did Thomas Jefferson really believe, “That government is best which governs least?”

It had not only a pivotal effect in Arizona's own labor history, but also on labor activity throughout the country.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.

In 1991, Anita Hill publicly accused then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the early 1980s.