Robert F. Kennedy

Having a single candidate by the time of the convention has been a key stepping stone for a party’s victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.

Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

But they've always been risky.

Instead of trying to eliminate hunger, we continue to talk about personal responsibility.

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."

American portraiture with its visual allure and pictorial storytelling made gun ownership desirable.

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

Jeff Sessions tried to jail an activist couple trying to ensure the black residents of Alabama the right to vote.

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

How statistical data came to rule public policy.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965.