John Fitzgerald Kennedy

And the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it.

The president's Nantucket nuclear fallout shelter could become a National Historic Landmark—but efforts to preserve its history have stalled.

Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.

In his undelivered final speech, Kennedy warned the world against ‘voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality.’

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

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

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

Years after he integrated the MLB, Robinson publicly badgered John F. Kennedy on civil rights.

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?

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

Reflections on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In response to the build-up of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, JFK ordered a quarantine of the island and military surveillance missions.

The mistress of JFK, there was a lot more than wealth, whiteness, and femininity to make Mary Pinchot Meyer a target of murder.

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.

Russia’s recent nuclear threats have revived Cold War animosity with roots in the Cuban missile crisis.

A helpful way to think about the JFK assassination, and political assassinations more generally, is to be more Dragnet about it than discursive.

Revisiting political assassinations.

The standoff 60 years ago has newfound relevance for handling the Ukraine crisis today.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.