F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.

When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of communities. There was no sense of nation or unity.

We have no historical precedent for this moment.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.

How a personal connection to Nick Carraway inspired the author to write the novel "Nick."

Thirty years after "Ice Ice Baby," Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony.

The rise and fall of the Brooks Brothers name.

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

No American writer has wielded such influence. So why is he so little known today?

The story of the Armed Services Editions.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

Picking Silicon Valley’s future winners is still, some six decades since the birth of modern venture capital, more art than science.

Archivists are figuring out which pieces of artists' digital lives to preserve alongside letters, sketchbooks, and scribbled-on napkins.

Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

Alfredo Villanueva-Collado on his J.C. Leyendecker collection and the fascinating story behind this oft-neglected male image maker.

Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.