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

Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishme...

For all his accomplishments and advanced thinking, Thomas Jefferson could not get beyond his own limited perspective in matters of race. Drawing from...

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

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

As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid...