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The TV That Created Donald Trump

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017

Samuel Huntington, a Prophet for the Trump Era

The writings of the late Harvard political scientist anticipate America's political and intellectual battles -- and point to the country we may become.

by Carlos Lozada via Washington Post on July 18, 2017

James Garfield

The Unexpected Impact of James Garfield's Assassination

On July 2, 1881, less than a year after President James Garfield was elected the 20th president of the United States, he was shot by Charles Guiteau.

by Peter Feuerherd, Mike Sewell via JSTOR Daily on July 2, 2017

JFK’s Russian Conspiracy

Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war.

by Timothy Naftali via Slate on May 27, 2017

President Precedents

How Americans understand the powers of the office and the legacies of past leaders.

How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism

The government's suppression of press freedom was a major component of its attempts to build support for the war effort

by Christopher B. Daly via The Conversation on April 27, 2017

Executive Action

Andrew Jackson was the first president to carry a big stick: he beat a would-be assassin with a cane.

by John Dickerson via Slate on January 30, 2017

The Art of the New Deal

Despite a fractured party and health concerns, FDR capitalized on name recognition to win the 1932 presidential election.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 31, 2016

Obama standing with his official presidential portrait.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library lands on Chicago.

by Rick Perlstein via The Baffler on July 1, 2015

LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

by Michael O'Donnell via The Atlantic on March 19, 2014

Painting of Hannah.

Hannah, Andrew Jackson’s Slave

A favorite of Old Hickory, she made him seem kinder than he was. Why?

by Mark R. Cheathem via Humanities on March 10, 2014

LBJ Orders Pants

You will never think about the 36th president the same way again.

by Put This On via YouTube on January 17, 2011

Joe Biden as a new Senator, sitting next to framed photographs of his family

Death and the All-American Boy

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

by Kitty Kelley via Washingtonian on June 1, 1974

Black-and-white portrait of Fidel Castro looking down with his hand near his ear.

I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.

by Jean Daniel via The New Republic on December 7, 1963

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