Nation Topics - Historical People | The Nation

The secretary of state's political views are rooted in his religion. Tell that to the leaders of his faith.

The man who reported on the Third Reich for CBS finds
some disturbing parallels between the Nixon administration and the Nazi government.

The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes.

The head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters takes on FDR.

She was a fanatic but "a good fanatic" in the fight for women's freedom.

Should America join the League of Nations? The Harvard professor says the slogan "Join the League" offers too simple a solution for a complex question.

The Vietnamese leader is also a poet.

He may have been one of the 'nine old men' of the Supreme Court, but he was a great old man.

Harold Laski profiles the British leader whose iron will galvanized Britain and saved Europe from Nazism.

The founder of Hull House and former beacon for progressivism struggles to define herself in contemporary America.