Republicans gathered in Milwaukee this week to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, a continuation of the GOP’s decadeslong march to the far right. That hard turn started 60 years ago this ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Goldwater landslide, which was the tidal wave that swept the Deep South into the Republican Party. Alabama and the South had voted solidly Democratic ...

On Tuesday, Van Jones and Bakari Sellers discussed the democratic presidential race on CNN. Jones emphasized that Bernie Sanders sounds like a one-issue candidate, but he doesn’t have to. He added, ...

The podcast series "Rediscovering: The Roots of Radicalism" looks at Arizona history and Arizona extremists dating to the state’s time as a U.S. territory after the Civil War. It makes stops in the ...

Manalapan, N.J.: Here is a history lesson we should all remember. Arch-conservative Barry Goldwater challenged Lyndon Johnson in 1964 by fiercely criticizing his “liberal policies,” especially the ...

Barry Goldwater marched through Dixie last week, hitting 14 cities during a four-day, eight-state tour of the Old Confederacy. In Memphis, he drew 30,000 people to the grassy slopes of River Bluff, ...

Just ten months before, Barry Goldwater had stood on the patio of his desert house near Phoenix and declared himself a candidate for the presidency. It would be “a long and lonely road.” This week he ...

Nomination of Barry Goldwater and William E. Miller to head the Republican ticket means the introduction of significant religious elements into the 1964 presidential election campaign. The 55-year-old ...