Harry S. Truman

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

A new book celebrates an American political dynasty dedicated to public service. Why have they been forgotten?

In 1952, news stations combined two new technologies—the TV and the computer—to forever transform how voters experience election night.

History can make the U.S. better prepared for the specter of protracted large-scale ground combat, which has grown more real in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

A military consumed by identity politics threatens the integrity of the republic.

Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.

In 1956, The New York Times, dismayed by wayward polls in the prior presidential race, sent teams of reporters across the nation to better gauge public opinion.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

People who study the past don’t always have special insight into politics. Recent events have made that crystal clear.

No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee.

When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

Isaiah Bowman was one of the worst college presidents in American history.

After World War II ended, government and military leaders were ready to return women to their domestic roles. But one woman had other ideas.

Too often, U.S. support for open navigation has devolved into military conflict.

The special relationship between the United States and Israel was cemented by the support offered by Lyndon B. Johnson throughout the sixties.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.