My rather long Monday column covers the ideological and platform shifts of the parties from 1860 to...
Category - History
Genealogists: POTUS is Descended From Slaves
According to a team of genealogists working for Ancestry.com, President Obama's ancestral roots can...
Conan O'Brien Loves Abraham Lincoln
This is brilliant. Conan visits Springfield, Illinois and various Lincoln landmarks:
Slavery By Another Name
43 years after Appomattox and the end of the Civil War... On March 30, 1908, Green Cottenham was...
Another Whopper Inaccuracy in O'Reilly's Book
Any presidential historian knows that the Oval Office didn't exist until the Teddy Roosevelt...
Your States and Capitals
Every student of American politics should know two things: the presidents in order of office, and...
Great President, Or the Greatest President?
Gallup ought to be ashamed of this display of dumbstupid. It's their annual "Who's the Greatest...
Dick Winters, 1918-2011
Another hero of World War II is gone: Dick Winters, a highly decorated World War II hero who became...
Senator John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorensen
LIFE Magazine just released a series of never-before-seen photographs of President Kennedy. Here's...
Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech
I almost forgot about this. In 2007, Washington Monthly asked Mr. Sorensen to write the speech he...
The Last Word: Ted Sorensen
The New York Times remembers Mr. Sorensen:
Theodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen 1928 – 2010
Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, whose prose mingled with the thoughts and words of his close friend John...
Saint Reagan In The Doghouse
From 1983, a young (but still melty) Brit Hume reports on Reagan's dismal poll numbers: ht Benjamin
The Second Bomb
Question for the room... There's been an ongoing debate for the last 55 years about whether or not...
Surnow's Kennedy Smear Movie
Sign the petition to keep the forthcoming Joel Surnow (24) Kennedy miniseries from polluting...
Prediction
As long as cooler heads prevail, and after some near term hiccups, I think we're very likely headed...
Cloture with Poo
This story from Paul Krugman cracked me up. Bring back the bucket of dung!
Quotas and Italian Immigrants
One of the places I visited over the weekend was Ellis Island. I had never been there and...
D-Day
June 6, 1944
WWII: Behind Closed Doors
The producers of WWII Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West were awesome enough to...