History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who... →
Jon Meacham
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be... →
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine... →
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military... →
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their... →
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a... →
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.