Lyndon Baines Johnson

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.

A new book calls white evangelicals to reckon with the fact that the groundwork for their movement was laid, in part, by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI.

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.

Did you know that there was a hidden utopia of formerly enslaved people located in the mountains of Appalachia?

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.

The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.

The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.

The Police Beat Algorithm’s outputs were not so much predictive of future crime as they were self-fulfilling prophesies.

The conservative successes of the Eisenhower administration have been too quickly forgotten.

The twentieth century promised prosperity and leisure for all. What went wrong?

Theodore Roosevelt said his made him look like “a mewing cat.” Lyndon Johnson called his “the ugliest thing I ever saw.” Ronald Reagan ordered a do-over.

Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.

Housing costs are skyrocketing. History offers a path forward.

The Federal Reserve keeps increasing interest rates to try to bring prices down — but that may erase gains by non-White workers.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.