John F. Kennedy

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.

A cat named Miss Pussy! A racist parrot! Benjamin Harrison’s possums, which he later ate!

The answer can change over time.

How not to learn about the American past.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

Failures inspire distrust of pollsters and calls for more shoe-leather reporting. But by the next election, we always come running back.

“Start-ups: they need philosophers, political theorists, historians, poets. Critics.”

It helped erode discrimination but also upheld racial prejudice.

The gambit was cynical and disruptive, but in the end it didn’t work.

The administration’s historically low ceiling for refugee resettlement may signal the end of an era.

There has been some famous presidential campaign moments in the past 50 years. However, not everyone knows or remembers these moments.

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.

The 'Gone With the Wind' film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.

The Insurrection Act of 1807, which Trump has threatened to invoke, is the linchpin of several iconic events in African American history.

Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.