Power

Reagan's use of jokes to openly mock the Soviet system were part of his broader Cold War strategy.

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

The New Deal brought Black voters over to the Democratic Party, but was marred by racial inequality.

Joe Biden was a lot more careful around the press after this 1974 profile.

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.

An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.

Black Journal interviews with Imamu Amiri Baraka, poet-playwright and co-chairman of the National Black Political Convention.

An unpopular Lyndon B. Johnson sought unity amid turmoil in his 1968 address to Congress.

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965.

In early 1965, President Johnson made the case to Congress for comprehensive immigration reform.

A 1964 presidential campaign advertisement for Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Reflections on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address remains one of the most famous presidential speeches.

Truman’s radio address on August 9, 1945 frames Hiroshima as a “military base” to justify its bombing.

In this 1915 letter to Congress, President Wilson explains his decision to reject new immigration restrictions.

A political education begins with knockoff opinions amid the 1840 U.S. presidential election.

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth: What shall be done with slaves?”

A man who wants everyone to know his views explains why he’s against voting in secret.

In 1872, Charles Sumner decries “a president who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite.”

The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly.

An 1866 essay presents Andrew Johnson as "the virtual leader of the Southern reactionary party."

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history.

The Atlantic’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for presidency in the 1860 election, correctly predicting it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”

A chilling raw feed of an infamous event. 

People continue to interpret the U.S. Constitution in different ways. One way is an originalist framework that favors the Founding Father's intent in 1787.

How U.S. agricultural policy has evolved over time.