Fifty years later, Kennedy's legend makes life at the White House harder for Democrats

A prominent historian on the politician behind the oratory

How unpopular opinions move history forward

It never happened—but still had more impact than today's reenactment

The famous filibusterer as a Harvard Law Grad in 1993

Why a decades-old act of defiance still hasn't been surpassed

The incoherence of the British Empire

Woodrow Wilson was as important as FDR or LBJ. Why aren't we celebrating his 100th anniversary?

In 1971, a national day-care bill almost became law. Therein lies a story.

In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before

Howard Zinn's influential mutilations of American history