Harry S. Truman

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?

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

FDR managed inflation during World War II through government policy. Today’s calamities call for a similar approach.

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.

Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice.

For the Philippines, independence from the United States came with strings attached.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

In the six decades of his career, Bob Dylan has mined America’s past for images, characters, and events that speak to the nation’s turbulent present.