Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

Past and present celebrities influence on the maintaining of antisemitism.

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.

Creating a personal myth allows celebrities to create just that—a myth.

A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.

Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?

Lessons from the anti-fascist novel in Trump’s second term.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

Aaron Sorkin's new film dramatizes three pivotal moments in the lives of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

Even as the United States mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany, anti-democratic forces simmered at home.

The two decades leading up to WWII featured numerous connections between America and Nazi Germany that reveal Nazism was never simply a foreign or enemy force.

Delivering the mail used to be sexy and thrilling. It can be once more.

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

In 1928, women wanted more than just the vote. They wanted to do everything a man could do. Even fly the Atlantic.

Even before mass media coverage of child abductions, American parents had reason to fear the worst if their child went missing.