Jackie Kennedy Onassis

As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.

On the centenary of his birth, seeking the man behind the myth.

Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?

Paul Landis, 88, is one of the few survivors who had a firsthand view of Kennedy’s assassination 60 years ago Wednesday. He is only now telling his whole story.

Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. Here's why that’s so significant, if true.

What the First Lady could learn from the fashion show that was supposed to showcase America First fashion.

The end of the big-city columnist.

Hot pants served as a sartorial riposte to the fashion industry’s relentless campaign for the midi.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.

Jack Kennedy, we hardly know ye—and to know ye is not to love ye.

From Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama, meet 100 women who defined the last century.

Today, 1 in 3 American babies are delivered via the procedure, twice what the World Health Organization recommends.

How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday's spirit of unity and a country's legacy of exclusion.

Politicians from both sides of the aisle have tried to stake a claim to the power of the Kennedy legend. What is it about Camelot?

For many of us, especially those who weren’t alive when it happened, we’re all watching that event through Zapruder’s lens.

Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.

A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.