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Robert Dallek on “Power and the Presidency”
The presidential historian reflects on the expansion of power in the Oval Office from Kennedy to Obama
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A German archaeologist has finally deciphered the Roman amphitheater’s amazing underground labyrinth
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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Power and the Presidency, From Kennedy to Obama
For the past 50 years, the commander in chief has steadily expanded presidential power, particularly in foreign policy
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J. P. Morgan as Cutthroat Capitalist
In 1903, photographer Edward Steichen portrayed the American tycoon in an especially ruthless light
And when to curtail them
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The Early History of Football’s Forward Pass
The forward pass was ridiculed by college football’s powerhouse teams only to be proved wrong by Pop Warner and his Indians
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Childhood Memories of Charles Lindbergh
In an excerpt from her memoir, Reeve Lindbergh, the daughter of the famous aviator, recalls her father’s love of checklists
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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Egypt’s ruler was more than the sum of the seductions that loom so large in history—and in Hollywood
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An Oval Office photograph captured the bizarre encounter between the king of rock and roll and the president
Editor’s Note: Glorious Quests
Impossible dreams and heavenly causes
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The lumbering beasts coexisted with the first humans for tens of thousands of years and then died off. Why?
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George Washington and His Maps
In his journey from surveyor to soldier to leader, our first president used cartography to get a feel for the young nation
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From Election to Sumter: How the Union Fell Apart
Historian Adam Goodheart discusses the tumultuous period between Lincoln’s election and the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
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Momentous or Merely Memorable
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In 1830, a brutal crime in Massachusetts riveted the nation—and inspired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Capturing Warsaw at the Dawn of World War II
As German bombs began falling on Poland in 1939, an American photographer made a fateful decision
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How the Battle of Little Bighorn Was Won
Accounts of the 1876 battle have focused on Custer’s ill-fated cavalry. But a new book offers a take from the Indian’s point of view
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