Harry S. Truman

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.

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

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.

Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.

Repeated failures by both political parties to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the Affordable Care Act.

After Japan's surrender, U.S. troops rebelled against a plan to keep them overseas, staging dramatic protests from the Philippines to Guam.

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?