In our tumultuous times, history offers hope

by Katrina vanden Heuvel

In his book, my father ceaselessly reminds us that hard work and idealism can create change.

The Roosevelts’ Ruthless Control of Their Image

by William J. Mann

The shocking story of how TR and FDR covered up affairs and blackballed members of their family in the service of their political ambitions.

What Happened to the Roosevelts?

by Rob Goodman

What the Bushes and the Clintons can learn from a fallen political dynasty.

Ken Burns is in a race to slow us down

“We are in a media culture where we are buried in information but we know nothing."

Ken Burns and the Myth of Theodore Roosevelt

"Though exciting to watch, Burns’s cinematic homage muddles the history."

What Ken Burns Doesn't Understand about the Roosevelts

In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost.

Ken Burns’s ‘Roosevelts’ Fine But Flawed

by Harvey J. Kaye

Arguably America’s most influential historian, Burns fashions a fascinating documentary from the lives of Teddy, Franklin, and Eleanor. But his story has grave gaps.