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Was it the mob? A coup? Cuban dissidents? War hawks? Over 60 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the theories are still debated. Do any of them hold up?

Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America by Nick Witham explores the industry of popular history from Daniel Boorstin to Howard Zinn.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, thought the Bureau’s mission was to defeat the godless forces of liberalism, feminism and civil rights.

Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.

Hawai‘i’s Mauna Kea is among the best places in the world to study the universe, but the construction of a new super telescope is about more than astronomy.

After the death of her husband in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt left the White House and embarked upon a new career as ‘First Lady of the World’.

As America built a vision of its past Oliver Cromwell became both angel and demon.

Bayard Rustin, African American civil rights leader, was also a pacifist, a socialist and a gay rights activist.

Puerto Rico’s future might be statehood, independence or more of the status quo, but change is unlikely to be won through voting alone.