Harry S. Truman

In 1947, the United States sacrificed for the sake of a starving Europe.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

Lessons from the start of the Cold War.

The history of segregation in the Navy — and its abolition — show how to combat institutionalized bigotry.

Masks and social distancing are largely gone, but just as consequentially, a less visible pandemic intervention is ending: universally free school meals.

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

A new history draws on recently declassified archives to illustrate how the Korean War was an intimate civil conflict, not just a proxy battle between superpowers.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

You likely think of the American West as deeply conservative and rural. Yet history shows this politics is very new indeed.

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

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

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

Driven by fears of the rise of communism, the U.S. intervened in elections across the globe. In Latin America, the consequences are still being felt.

How Charlotta Bass, a Black woman and peace activist, anticipated America’s path to militarism.

A brief history of their tangled saga of patriotism and dissent.

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Unintended consequences may be the reason they aren't used today.

Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.