Richard Nixon

An analysis of the Carnegie Commission's 1967 report shows that public broadcasting has always been a politically fraught issue.

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.

In the 1960s, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick successfully sold President Nixon on an idea of a black built, black-owned community in North Carolina.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

Ever since Kennedy-Nixon, televised debates have given viewers an insight into candidates' policies—and their personalities, too.

Has the government done enough to stop housing discrimination?

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.