Dwight D. Eisenhower

Schools have long been ideological and physical battlegrounds — especially when it comes to citizenship and civil rights.

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

The residence staff, many of whom have worked there for decades, balance their service of the First Family with their long-term loyalty to the house itself.

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

The impeachment exposed the need for Republican leaders to banish the extremists and bigots from their movement.

Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

The answer can change over time.