Lyndon Baines Johnson

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday's spirit of unity and a country's legacy of exclusion.

Conservatives backed bilingual education until it became a progressive cause.

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.

We often forget that Nixon took decidely liberal stances on welfare, healthcare, and universal basic income.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

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

Stephanie Hall provides examples of folklore and storytelling within a fathers' relationship to music.

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.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

Over time, presidential libraries have morphed into a way for past presidents to shape their legacy on the taxpayers' dime. Obama is doing things differently.

For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.

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

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.

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

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

In many Southern states, "Brown v. Board of Education" fueled decades of resistance to school integration.

Has the government done enough to stop housing discrimination?