For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nation.
A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.
Governor Mario Cuomo of New York has used history as a guide and a solace for a good part of his life.
An hour and a half of growing astonishment in the presence of the President of the United States, as recorded by a witness who now publishes a record of it for the first time
It’s not surprising that Democrats seek to wrap themselves in the Roosevelt cloak; what’s harder to understand is why so many Republicans do, too. A distinguished historian explains.
When Elsie Parrish was fired, her fight for justice led to dramatic changes in the nation’s highest court.
A brilliant demagogue named Huey Long was scrambling for the presidency when an assassin’s bullets cut him down just 50 years ago.
Was the murdered President one of our best, a man of “vigor, rationality, and noble vision” or was he “an optical illusion,” “an expensively programmed waxwork”? A noted historian examines the mottled evolution of his reputation.
"The current was too strong, the demagogues too numerous, the fall elections too near"
