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When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...

The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise,...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boar...

A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...

When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...

Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...

If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...

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