J. Edgar Hoover

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

A new book examines explores the ways that an uncritical celebration of “good” gays and “good” gayness can cause harm.

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.

The public widely opposed wiretapping until the 1970s. What changed?

Who did neoliberalism?

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

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

In the early 20th century, labor unrest and strike breaking were done not by the government, but by private agencies and self-appointed vigilantes.

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.

Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life — and triumphed — in the trial of the Panther 21.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

In the 1960s and 1970s, photographer Leni Sinclair stood at the center of a local scene where political and cultural ferment merged.

The Rosenbergs were executed for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough?

The author was monitored for his political activities, but also for being gay. The surveillance took a toll on him.

Activists on the campaign were dedicated, but the city of Chicago and the FBI had conspired to murder the city’s best organizer that night in December 1969.