Also in this issue: How darkness affects our minds, why the Kennedy brothers wiretapped Martin Luther King, and more
Eisenhower's glowing foreign-policy reputation ignores his tragic post-White House cheerleading for escalation in Vietnam.
150 years ago today, the author's forbear survived one of the bloodiest failed assaults of the Civil War
The quadrennial gatherings have shaped the nation’s history. What happens if they disappear?