“All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River,” President Franklin Roosevelt declared on July 11, 1944, as he announced that he would do the opposite and run for a fourth ...

Ken Burns' remarkable PBS documentary series, "The Roosevelts," makes the reasonable claim that FDR was the greatest President in American history. He gives due credit to FDR's distant cousin Theodore ...

We Don’t Know Where We Are in the Political Cycle Happy 250th Birthday to the Few, the Proud, the Marines Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N. Phyllis Schlafly Still Drives Opponents Mad An ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has a new project called UNUM, about ...

One evening last week three candidates for President, Franklin Roosevelt, Publisher Frank Knox and Senator Arthur Vandenberg. sat down with many another bigwig of Politics. Business and Press. They ...