As a child growing up on a Civil War battlefield in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jon Meacham would find spit bullets in the yard of the family home. It left him with the opinion that “history is a tactile ...

Meacham is the author of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush History, like life, is complicated. The danger is that President Trump will hear only the notes he wishes ...

Historian Jon Meacham joins Alicia Menendez to grade Trump's first 100 days in office and compare his presidency to ones that came before him. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells ’60 Minutes’ That ‘It Would ...

“Morning Joe” guest commentator Jon Meacham suggested that Trump voters enjoy the thought of him in the Oval Office again because they are entertained by his controversial behavior. “For the rest of ...

On Saturday, presidential historian and author Jon Meacham gave a loving and at times comical tribute to Barbara Bush during her funeral in Houston. Speaking in front of dignitaries, family and ...

Historian Jon Meacham offered a dire vision for the future of America on Monday’s Morning Joe, likening former President Donald Trump to the “tyrant who rose among us” that Abraham Lincoln talked ...

There is no juicier fruit for disciples of presidential rhetoric than the annual State of the Union address. The nation’s most powerful politicians are a live captive audience bearing all the ...

Historian Jon Meacham told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that when it comes to President Trump remodeling the White House, he wishes Republicans would be more like John McCain: JON MEACHAM: You know, the ...

For Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of "The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels," this past week has been disturbing — and all too familiar. Asked what is ...

The message was unmistakable. On Labor Day 1976, the traditional kickoff of the fall campaign, Jimmy Carter stood in front of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga., where the ...