Gerald Ford

The trials of Jimmy Carter.

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.

America’s most iconic automaker plans to drive almost all of their passenger sedans into the sunset by 2020.

The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.

That's the conclusion of a psychology study published in the journal Sciece.

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

Japanese-American internment camp newspapers.

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.

Decades of tough-on-crime policies that criminalized the poor and people of color are yet to be undone, but the pendulum is beginning to swing.

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president