Theodore Roosevelt

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.

Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

New York's statue debate hits Italian-Americans hard.

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

Americans, warned President Teddy Roosevelt's newly appointed opium commissioner in 1908, 'have become the greatest drugs fiends in the world.'

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.

The political theory of Trumpism.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

Bureaucracy used to work through patronage, an informal system of job-distribution by the party in power. Why did it change?

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

How did Niagara Falls become the Honeymoon Capital of the World?

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.