U.S. History - after 1945

Political scandals usually involve increasing levels of complexity, which eventually leave readers either surrendering to confusion with shr...

The amount of excitement generated by the election of America's first biracial president focused attention on his first few days in offi...

America's first biracial president, Barack H. Obama, has not met with the enthusiastic response he expected from the nation's black ...

One might have expected that America's first biracial president would have been a master at race relations. One might have expected that...

Every American president - George Washington included - has had to address questions of race. Barack H. Obama is no exception. For all of th...

The word 'dynasty' has been often used to refer to the Kennedy family. In American politics, given the lack of a royal house, the Ro...

Economists use a large number of statistical measures to gauge the economic health of a nation. The 'misery index' is among these, a...