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WASPs - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - such as Henry Adams, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, and Joe Alsop, held an outsized influence on American culture and history for much …

Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary were the parents of four boys. Only one--Robert--lived beyond his eighteenth birthday. Author Jason Emerson spent nearly a decade researching the 82-plus ye…

From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. government conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, a chain of islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean that had been inhabited for thousands of y…

Edward Moser has been a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush and a writer for the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” He currently works as a tour guide, historian, and author. We spoke to …

Keith Richburg, a native of Detroit, has been a print journalist for nearly his entire life. During his 30 years at the Washington Post he reported from countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, an…

In 2019, through FOIA requests and lawsuits, the Washington Post obtained hundreds of interviews conducted by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for its Les…

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talked about his new book. Known and Unknown, which he spent four years writing after leaving the George W. Bush administration. Mr. Rumsfeld has twi…

John Seigenthaler talked about his book, James K. Polk, published by Times Books. He described Polk as key to the U.S. westward expansion, and who carried forward the idea of Jacksonian demo…

Frances FitzGerald and Peter Kann, editors of the book Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, talked about their experiences as reporters in the Vietnam War. Part one, 1959-69, covers comba…

In the second of a two-part interview, Roger Mudd talked about his memoir The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, published by PublicAffairs. In his book for…

In the first of a two-part interview, Roger Mudd talked about his memoir, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, published by PublicAffairs. Mr. Mudd told t…

Ms. Soames talked about her book, Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book examines the personal letters of the Churchills evok…