Lyndon Baines Johnson

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

Georgia GOP candidate Brian Kemp is using a tried-and-tested formula designed to erode and corrode American democracy.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?

Instead of trying to eliminate hunger, we continue to talk about personal responsibility.

The history of the fight for single-payer health care for the elderly and poor should inform today's movement to win for Medicare for All.