Ronald Reagan

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

The fable of George Washington's prayer was meant to foster religious tolerance, not paint him as a pious leader.

What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?

The lessons from a critical California election in which voters rejected a virulently homophobic ballot measure.

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

"I pledge to laugh / At the Flag / Of the United States of America..."

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

On breast-feeding, Trump is following the Reagan formula.

30 years ago, it was a huge fire in Yellowstone National Park that stoked media attention and political controversy.

The trials of Jimmy Carter.

There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.

If we want to avoid nuclear war, we'd better start imagining it again.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

Mental health care has never been adequate in the U.S.

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?

Anticommunist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who popped up throughout Latin America over the past half-century, won’t be missed.

Remembering a time when a toxic cocktail of threats, fear, and misunderstanding nearly led us down the path to Armageddon.