Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

U.S. presidential elections didn't drag on so long before the late sixties.

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.

From 1947 until the 1990s, an estimated 10,000 LGBTQ people were pushed out of government and military positions.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.

If there’s one thing worth taking away from the new White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.