Dwight D. Eisenhower

When Congo gained independence during the Cold War, secret U.S. actions undermined its young democracy. It’s time to make up for that.

On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

Seventy years after a disgraceful episode of anti-LGTBQ history, we are facing a new wave of McCarthyist fearmongering.

The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.

The philosophy that drives the GOP's attacks on government and how it has fueled some of our biggest problems.

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

Recent years have witnessed a record number of challenges against books, especially in school libraries. But attempts to ban certain books isn't new in the U.S.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

Planners of the Interstate Highway System ignored warnings that they were damaging poor Black and Latino neighborhoods.

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."

Calls for control over educators are manufactured political myths as they’ve never had the power to push an agenda.

The rise of a new tax politics has made it harder to address our problems, and now it threatens democracy, too.

It's the resurrection of an old dream.