Richard Nixon

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

As a historian, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the fallout from Watts and other rebellions.

The Kent State shootings further widened the chasm among a citizenry divided over the Vietnam War.

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

Three men who brought the terrors of My Lai to light.

In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.

"Honor America Day" was designed to showcase support for President Nixon at a time of bitter division.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.

It didn't go exactly as planned. But for TAC's founder, this is where his populist antiwar movement may have begun.

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.