Douglas Brinkley

Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.

I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.