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In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860. The na...

Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-long...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...