John F. Kennedy

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.

History has paid little attention to Bridget Kennedy, JFK’s widowed great-grandmother, who managed both her family and business in Boston's anti-Irish climate.

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.

When it seemed that steel had lost its gleam with American consumers, the industry turned to marketing to make it shine again.

The context in which King shared his views on the filibuster is the same one in which the Senate now finds itself: amid battles over voting rights legislation.

The holiday favorite is an allegorical prayer for peace.

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

There are more than 400 million guns in Americans' hands.