The Containment,” by Michelle Adams, is a compelling history of a Supreme Court case that addressed schooling in Detroit ...

Haley Barbour writes about how he rose from a college campaign volunteer to helping build the Republican Party to two-term ...

Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, but they question how much the ...

Who’s gotten the most votes ever? As the 2024 election is certified, here’s a look at how the final totals for Donald Trump ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...

Alter indicates that Carter by-and-large, avoided any involvement in the civil rights movement, including never meeting with fellow Georgian, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). Surprisingly, Carter did not ...

The political life of Jimmy Carter had several threads in Kentucky, which in turn influenced the state’s political and economic life. Perhaps the first major law Carter signed as president, and one ...

Humphrey, who was the nominee in 1968 and earned the largest Democratic ... favorite son of the South because repeat candidate George Wallace of Alabama was again in the field, with significant ...

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.

After serving as President Dwight Eisenhower's right-hand man for eight years, Nixon faced an uphill battle to the presidency ...

As one of the front-runners, his next big challenge was to take out George Wallace, the segregationist ... and he was a strong third-party candidate in the 1968 general election.