Told

Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.

An 1848 investigative news story that relied on heavy data analysis snared big fish, including two future presidents.

In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.

An interactive chart reveals how the words presidents use reflect the twists and turns of American history.

Gordon, Peter, Vincent Colyer, and the story behind slavery's most famous photograph.

Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio program did not touch off nationwide hysteria. Why does the legend persist?

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

For many of us, especially those who weren’t alive when it happened, we’re all watching that event through Zapruder’s lens.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

19th-century Americans abandoned the English phrasing of "standing" for election and begin to describe candidates who "run" for office. The race was on.

Quite the contrary. They used rhetoric to build a partisan community, and realized that parties needed to create and market identities, not simply agendas.

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.

Character codes have been evolving through multiple systems over multiple centuries, this is the story.

The selling of the Iraq war.

How the term "blog" came into being.

The history of the L.A. Times.

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.

A Cold War-era cartoon celebrates the wonders of oil and free-market capitalism, and the overthrow of the Stalin-like leader of Mars.

"I touched the bell and this talk ensued."

The following is a list of quotations misattributed to George Washington that have been sent to the Mount Vernon Library in recent years.