Nikola Tesla’s Dinner Party

By Cori Brosnahan

Khrushchev’s American Road Trip

In which the Russian leader ate a hot dog, tried to go to Disneyland, and was underwhelmed by the Empire State Building.

­­Rhetoric Revisited: FDR’s “Infamy” Speech

A speechwriter dissects Franklin Roosevelt’s famous Pearl Harbor address 75 years later.

By Robert Lehrman

Ruby Ridge, Part One: Suspicion

The story of the 1992 standoff that helped launch the modern militia movement.

Ruby Ridge, Part Three: Fear & Faith

Hundreds of federal agents surround a cabin where a family holes up in fear. The standoff stretches on until the government gets help from an unlikely source.

A Dream of Cold: Veterans of the Battle of Chosin

In November of 1950, five months after the start of…

The President’s New Clothes

George Washington Gets Dressed (or: The Threads of Power, A Brief History)

Ruby Ridge, Part Two: Confirmation

The Weavers didn’t trust the government. The government didn’t trust the Weavers. What happened next confirmed each side’s worst fears.