Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will face off in their first presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024. AP Photo
by Claire Jerry, Smithsonian Institution
Even though...
Education has long been a divisive topic in American politics. Getty Images
by David M. Houston, George Mason University and Alyssa Barone, George Mason University
When...
by Charles Walldorf, Wake Forest University
U.S. presidents often leave the White House expressing “strategic regret” over perceived foreign policy failures.
Lyndon Johnson was haunted by...
President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which aimed to do away with racial discrimination in the law. But discrimination persisted.
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For the week of August 5-11
August 5
1865—President Andrew Johnson reverses an order giving land abandoned or confiscated from slave-owning Whites to former Black slaves....
SELMA, Ala. — A tidal wave of humanity flooded downtown Selma and the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”…
Week of Sept. 24-30
September 24
1957—President Dwight Eisenhower orders federal troops into Little Rock, Ark., to prevent angry Whites from interfering with the integration of...
For the Week of August 6-12
August 6
1870—In one of the most brazenly racist incidents of the post-Civil War period, White conservatives and racists employ...
