John F. Kennedy

Learning the right lessons of the past.

Enacting vaccination mandates demands political give and take.

A review of "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime."

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

The idealistic presidential candidate was on the verge of seizing control of the 1968 race just as Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet struck.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

John Glenn's fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

A popular theory links the closing of state psychiatric hospitals to the increased incarceration of people with mental illness. The reality is more complicated.

Support for and opposition to the ERA are not positions that are fundamentally tied to either conservatism or liberalism.

Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.

Joe Biden has met with scholars to discuss his presidency and likely legacy—but what are we to make of his special relationship with historian Jon Meacham?

Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.

Roger Mudd proved in 1964 that media attention can help overcome Senate obstruction.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.