Ted Kennedy

Updating the Registry Act and uncoupling legalization from punitive measures could be first steps.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

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.

The struggle for autonomy and representation has been full of gains followed by setbacks.

Jack Kennedy, we hardly know ye—and to know ye is not to love ye.

The administration’s historically low ceiling for refugee resettlement may signal the end of an era.

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the credit for ending quotas to civil rights reformers. The truth is a bit more complicated.

Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

A history of U.S. health care debates.

Procedures drive the bottom line in our medical system.

In 1962, tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.

Nearly two decades ago, historians embraced a hugely wasteful federal education program. It’s past time to reckon with that.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.