reputation

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

On the Irish writer’s grand tour of the Gilded Age United States.

Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.

Today, historical figures are held in deep suspicion, but refusing to acknowledge the heroes of the past diminishes our own sense of what is possible.

The Civil War general's reputation was shaped by partisan politics, editorial whims and his own personal failings.

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

On Chuck Berry.

An investigation identified hundreds of artifacts linked to indicted or convicted traffickers. What does this mean for the future of museums?

The foremost challenge of Grant’s day has not gone away. His response to it merits our attention.

How shall a generation know its story, if it will know no other?

Lin­coln’s interactions with black Americans provides a valuable resource for understanding a more farseeing Lincoln than the voices of despair have described.

Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.

In Yoknapatawpha County, the past never speaks with a single voice.

Colvin, 82, is headed to court in Montgomery, Ala., to petition for her record to be cleared.

A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.

A frontier character's life was crafted to be legendary, but was the real person as incredible?

Conservatives created a rosy image of Reagan to further their political project.

Revealing these materials could be considered “Hoover’s revenge.”

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?

Had Bob Dylan not written a song about it, the 1963 killing of a black servant by a white socialite’s cane might have been long forgotten.