Summer 2021

As a young reporter for the Boston Globe, I stumbled onto the existence of the Pentagon Papers.

The New York Times reporter who spent months in hiding analyzing the Pentagon Papers remembers how they broke the story.

After we published the Papers at the Washington Post, the Supreme Court decision in our favor has underpinned American freedom of the press.

No figure in the Revolutionary era inspired as much affection and reverence as Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s evolving relationship with African Americans challenged her beliefs about herself and the world she had been raised in.  

The “Divine Wind” began in October 1944 as the Japanese defended against MacArthur’s assault on the Philippines. The Americans who witnessed these first attacks were horrified and shaken, but it was only the beginning.

Dubbed the “AAA guide for black people,” the underground travel manual encapsulated how automobile travel expanded — and limited — African American lives under Jim Crow.