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Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Jerry Lee Lewis was known as the Killer, and it wasn’t a casual sobriquet.

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now 100 years old, teach us today?

Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.

The railroad baron and governor of California was starkly contradictory and infamously disruptive.

Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.

Emory professor Michael Bellesiles resigned in the midst of a political firestorm. He still stands by his work.

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

He was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved stars. Then his adopted country turned against him.

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

RJ Smith’s biography of Chuck Berry examines his subject’s instinct for crossing the line musically, racially, and morally.

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

In yoga’s early days in the United States, skeptics warned it would lead people (e.g., women) of good faith and standing into paganism and ill repute.

William Magear “Boss” Tweed, who became a political force in New York as leader of the “Tweed Ring,” was found guilty in 1873 of 102 separate crimes.

Alex Haley’s transcript of his famous 'Playboy' interview with Martin Luther King Jr. does not match what was published.

On Chuck Berry.

As ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ climbed the ratings ladder, the censorship bleep became a star of the show.

President Warren G. Harding paid not one, but two women to remain quiet about their affairs with him.

The tensions between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush.