Gerald Ford

The Baptist Georgia governor won evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters changed sides—for the long haul.

After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson issued the biggest act of presidential clemency in our history. It angered his party and led to his eventual impeachment.

President Ford’s pardon of Nixon is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.

What would-be killers of the US commander in chief have in common is that they aren’t fervent ideologues; they’re outcasts.

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

Betty Ford and the public eye.

The end of the big-city columnist.

The history of the battle to keep Title IX out of college sports.

The Spiro Agnew Edition.

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

How the law became a staging ground for unrestrained war.

When do wars end, and who gets to decide? These deceptively simple questions are actually quite difficult to answer.

An excerpt from "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism."

Theodore Roosevelt said his made him look like “a mewing cat.” Lyndon Johnson called his “the ugliest thing I ever saw.” Ronald Reagan ordered a do-over.

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

What obligation does the US have toward people who are uprooted by war?

The number one complaint: Children had to go to school in the dark.

Hal Brands urges the U.S. to make China and Russia “pay exorbitantly” for their policies. History shows that has never worked.

Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.

Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.