Mike Wallace

A new history of New York City during World War II captures the glory, tawdriness, poverty, narcissism, beauty, and grime of this “aggregation of villages.”

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

With low police morale, limited peacekeeping ability and agitated immigrants, the city only needed a match to set it ablaze.

How a celebrated corporate lawyer named Elihu Root became the driving force behind some of the worst U.S. atrocities ever perpetrated abroad.

What does the way we mourn, remember, and care for our dead say about us?

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.

A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history.