Politics

Alonzo Hamby on “Parties to History”

July 31, 2008

Lewis L. Gould on “Parties to History”

July 31, 2008

How the 1964 Republican Convention Sparked a Revolution From the Right

At the ugliest of Republican conventions since 1912, entrenched moderates faced off against conservative insurgents

August 2008

China’s Artistic Diaspora

For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art

May 1, 2008

An Interview with William E. Leuchtenburg, author of “New Faces of 1946”

William E. Leuchtenburg discusses the 1946 elections and how politics have changed

November 1, 2006

History of Now

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost

Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches

May 2005

The Madness That Swept Miami

Political controversies have rocked Florida lately, but they can’t compare with the hysteria unleashed during the land boom of the 1920s

January 1, 2001

The Rise, and Fall, of a Fervid Third Party

In the 1850s, a burgeoning coalition of self- proclaimed nativists, or Know-Nothings, swept into office and called out for radical change

November 1, 1996

Congress Couldn’t Have Been This Bad, or Could It?

If you think things are pretty messy on Capitol Hill today, just take a look at what was going on up there a century and a half ago

November 1995

One Thousand and One Ways of Saying Uncle

Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from

July 1995