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Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace are given their dues in a fascinating group biography

As an orator, Dwight D. Eisenhower was not in the same league with Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. His roster of memorable speeches numbers a grand total of two, a paltry total for someone who served eight years as U.S. president. Yet some five decades after his death, those two…

Despite living with chronic pain in his bowels and back, JFK kept his disabilities secret from the public

Don't laugh: As a presidential historian, I can tell you that FDR and LBJ were also underestimated at first

Historian David Gans on the lessons of Reconstruction, when Congress enforced reforms on a stubborn Supreme Court

The 90-year-old sociologist on ‘vengeance politics’, cruelty and climate change as she looks back on half a century of activism

Robert Oppenheimer on the death of FDR.

Former President Donald Trump has offered to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, a bizarre concept that illustrates just how far America has fallen from the days when leaders of both major parties collaborated to support global democracy.

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan leanings of the music's most loyal fans.

Don't despair! We may be at a crucial hinge of history, like the one FDR faced in 1933. A new era is waiting

FDR's plan to expand the Supreme Court nearly derailed his presidency. That doesn't mean it was a bad idea