John F. Kennedy

And how they helped seal America’s fate in Vietnam.

Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?

Ray Schoenke started campaigning for George McGovern in 1971 because he wanted to make a difference. The experience ended up changing his life.

That the 500th anniversary of Luther’s act has been noted without éclat may be something to celebrate.

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

Lyndon Johnson wanted sweeping new gun control laws. Instead he got crumbs.

Fifty years ago, 160 young Americans defied State Department orders and partied on the streets of Moscow. The Cold War would never be the same.

The 1957 launch of Sputnik wasn’t necessarily the start of the US-Soviet space race that Americans think of today.

If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited.

The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country.

The answers are just as important as the stories that our history books tell.

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

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

In the sixties, the U.S. government ran a secret project to look for gold in the oddest places: seawater, meteorites, plants, even deer antlers.

The new administration plans to bring back a committee that has tried over the years to guide policy—with mixed results.

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

One of the very reasons the framers wanted the president to take a salary, was to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

Donald Trump’s restrictive plan is reminiscent of legislation from 100 years ago.

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy