Want to understand how American politics became so dysfunctional that people who disagree can no longer communicate with one another? This t...

I highly recommend this Paul Greenberg editorial. The Clean Water Act Turns 40: Is the Law Still Protecting Our Waters? | | AlterNet

President Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, may have been the politician most notable for deploying what has become a cli chéd under...

On the last day of July 1971, the Grateful Dead played at the Yale Bowl. When this football stadium was built in 1914, it was "the lar...

Rick Perlstein shared this link on Facebook. Campaign songs from former President Richard Nixon's political career proposed as a soundtr...

Who Was Fritz Kraemer? And Why We Should Care by Luke A. Nichter Whether Vietnam, Iraq, or now Afghanistan, wars come and go, but the real b...

Was Richard Nixon a chess player? That's one of many insignificant questions that will join the significant inquiries as I read through ...

When I began reading A Patriot’s History of the United States eight months ago, perusing the footnotes quickly carried me astray. I’ve...

Rick Perlstein has a new book coming out in May. According to History News Network , Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturi...

History is the memory of states. Henry Kissinger The chapter, “The Age of Upheaval, 1960-1974,” in A Patriot’s History of the United Sta...

The New Journalism Hunter S. Thompson was representative of the era in which he lived. From his abuse of drugs to his love of guns, he refl...