Most of our Presidents have been avid athletes, even Taft. Could a party safely nominate an overweight and unabashed couch potato who scorned exercise?
The two-party system, undreamt of by the founders of the Republic, has been one of its basic shaping forces ever since their time
In the 1920s, the Klan expanded by targeting Catholics, Jews, and foreigners as well as blacks. But eventually it collided with fundamental American values.
S & L scandals, junk bonds, defaults—the pattern is familiar to anyone who knows about U.S. banking between 1830 and 1855.
The maker of a fine new documentary on the Civil War tells how the medium of film can evoke the emotional reality of history
The disputed election of "His Fraudulency" Rutherford B. Hayes ended the era of Reconstruction.
How the Fifteenth Amendment, like the Fourteenth, was almost strangled in its cradle.
Corruption must be fought in ways that preserve fairness and freedom. Otherwise the reformers can be as bad as the rascals.