As the right-wing movements of intolerance gain greater and greater hold over the levers of American political and judicial power today, historians have begun to examine their roots in earlier periods ...

Bordewich is the author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction In the fall of 1866, in the war-weary town of Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of bored young Confederate ...

"It became a quest to figure out what this anti-Klan coalition was and what it was trying to do over the course of the 1920s and 1930s to address the growth of the Ku Klux Klan," Rost said.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. One hundred years can seem like a long time ago. In the summer of 1924, the Connecticut River Valley was under a great deal of societal stress. The Ku ...

In 1965, when he was 16 years old, Will James Shephard learned that his mother had just received a phone call from CBS News. David Lowe, a CBS executive producer, was working on a television ...