John F. Kennedy

The Trump administration Is borrowing from a failed cold-war era playbook.

The FBI reads James Baldwin.

Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.

How the U.S. Post Office took point on civil defense.

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

Israel is attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, but Tehran’s secret path was blazed by the Israelis.

It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?

I, a historian of the Vietnam War, have watched the Turning Point treatment. I have some notes.

Food for Peace exemplifies the value of internationalism and humanitarian endeavors in American foreign policy.

Special Group and PFIAB meeting minutes provide dramatic view of CIA operations.

The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power benefits for the US.

The president is right to release the Kennedy files.

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination.