John F. Kennedy

Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control.

How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few have asked it, and even fewer have received an answer.

Viewed as public memory, the Crisis has an extraordinarily useful function today: a nuclear warning for the future.

An excerpt from a new book on the so-called "Jewish Kennedys."

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

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.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

Washington has long been a disproportionately gay city—a mecca for clever, ambitious young men who want to escape their hometowns’ prying eyes.

One focus of the 1960s struggle for civil rights in the North were the construction industries of Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland.

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.