Woodrow Wilson

A hoax about the president’s death led him to believe he was Commander-in-Chief—and it paralyzed him with fear.

America’s opposition to Nazism and fascism was only as good as the moment.

A fragile president driven by a fear of failure and humiliation tried to convince America, one rally at a time, to change the world. He barely survived the attempt.

Of the many ways to remove a president, invoking the 25th amendment seems an ineffective path forward. That’s by design—and it has a lot to do with Mike Pence.

Americans have no accepted narrative of the Great War. Its causes remain obscure, its ending inconclusive, and its legacies contested. But for good or ill, it changed everything.

World War I, also called The Great War, inaugurated the modern age—but the key contributions of women and minorities to the American effort remain largely overlooked.

A. Mitchell Palmer had reached the peak of American politics, but his indiscriminate pursuit of terrorists backfired.