Robert F. Kennedy

The man who changed America.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

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

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

Mr. Shakespeare's team oversaw ads and on-air events that reflected the rising power of television as a political tool.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

Behind his tough image, the longtime FBI director was a man of profound contradictions.

Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.

An excerpt from a new book on the so-called "Jewish Kennedys."

A new book traces the tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests in Birmingham.

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

Why do most chroniclers of LBJ’s presidency miss the centrality and influence of the first lady?

It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left.

Jack Kennedy, we hardly know ye—and to know ye is not to love ye.

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?

This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.

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

The systematic mass murder and assault of accused communists in Indonesia by US-backed military forces has left a mark on the country and the world.