John F. Kennedy

It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?

I, a historian of the Vietnam War, have watched the Turning Point treatment. I have some notes.

Food for Peace exemplifies the value of internationalism and humanitarian endeavors in American foreign policy.

Special Group and PFIAB meeting minutes provide dramatic view of CIA operations.

The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power benefits for the US.

What does history tell us about presidents who have tried to push the limits of the system?

The president is right to release the Kennedy files.

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination.

Musk and Trump are capitalizing on decades of confusion and broken promises to lay waste to a crucial agency.

Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of U.S. inspectors.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Jimmy Carter, skeptical of NASA's shuttle, saved it with funding despite delays and opposition. His Voyager message carries hope deep into space.

The Bob Dylan film forefronts a conflict between acoustic and electric music, while ignoring how the Vietnam War divided folk musicians.

The psychiatric hospitals promoted by Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix were quickly overcrowded and underfunded — a failure that haunts us today.

Susie Orbach’s 1978 book is a fascinating snapshot of diet and physical culture in a very different era.

Political campaigns have often misunderstood Latino voters, oversimplifying their diversity and facing challenges in outreach and engagement.

A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats.

It radically shifted the way the world looked at the environment, but created a wave of misinformation we’re still dealing with today.