U.S. History - after 1945

Senator Edward Moore Kennedy - known as "Ted" or "Teddy" - occupied a seat in the United States Senate from 1962 to 2009...

How does a Supreme Court Justice arrive at his mature legal views? Like every other human being, he absorbs a variety of experiences and inf...

Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 into a African-American family in Pin Point, Georgia. Like his life, his hometown in many ways encapsulates...

Two memoranda from the office of General William Westmoreland have gained the attention of historians. Both memos were written by Westmorela...

Whether wars in the second half of the twentieth century have been more politicized than earlier conflicts depends, in part, which earlier c...

In hindsight, the U.S. government’s handling of the Korean War – a “police action” – was perhaps in some ways negligent, inasmuch as funding...

Critics from both ends of the political spectrum have noted the increasingly important role of fundraising in modern elections. Several legi...