Lyndon Baines Johnson

The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

Letting panic about fertility rates drive policy is dangerous.

Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America's poor, which is necessary to helping them.

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

A new PBS documentary investigates the legacy of one of the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, an unsettling cover-up, and the fight for accountability.

In the six decades of his career, Bob Dylan has mined America’s past for images, characters, and events that speak to the nation’s turbulent present.

In the 60s and 70s, spiraling prices for staples like meat and gasoline wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, thanks to political and policy mistakes.

Some of the earliest and most powerful anti-war songs of the Sixties era don’t mention Vietnam, but rather World War I.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

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

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

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.

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.

How English and Esperanto offer competing visions of a universal language.

Understanding this history helps make the case for D.C. as the 51st state.

Reforms have only made obstruction the Founders never intended worse.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.