How the South Became Republican
America’s southern states were once strongholds for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Eisenhower decided to win them over.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Korean War of Prisoners
The Korean War began as a conflict over territory. It would become a fight for prisoners’ asylum.
Ike and Obama
President Obama has more in common with Dwight D. Eisenhower than any other of his predecessors, says Michael Burleigh.
School Segregation in the USA
Mark Rathbone puts the famous 1954 school segregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, into historical context.
Troop Withdrawals from Korea
It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954.
Ike and Vietnam
Melanie Billings-Yun investigates President Eisenhower's motives and methods in the spring of 1954, when French collapse in Indochina brought pressures for direct American intervention against Communism.